Authors : James Cuff and Michele Clamp 2011/2012 Jonah Neugeboren and Aaron Kitzmkller 2015

Description

JAuth is a reference desktop client for the google authenticator. Intended as an alternative to the iPhone Google Authenticator app and similar. http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/

Explanatory bloggage at http://blog.jcuff.net/2011/09/beautiful-two-factor-desktop-client.html

Installation using GUI Installer

OS X https://github.com/mclamp/JAuth/tree/master/Installers/JAuth_macos_2_0.dmg Windows https://github.com/mclamp/JAuth/tree/master/Installers/JAuth_windows_2_0.exe Windows64 https://github.com/mclamp/JAuth/tree/master/Installers/JAuth_windows-x64_2_0.exe Linux https://github.com/mclamp/JAuth/tree/master/Installers/JAuth_unix_2_0.sh

All installers available from https://github.com/mclamp/JAuth/tree/master/Installers

Installation

To compile and run in bash

./makejar

then to run

java -jar JAuth.jar

java -jar JAuth.jar <myauthfile>

By default it looks in the home directory for a file called .google_authenticator

Alternatively :

java -jar JAuth.jar -secret=MY_SECRET_KEY

Webstart

Initialize your keystore (do this only once)

keytool -genkey -alias JAuth -keyalg RSA -keystore keystore.jks -keysize 2048

Sign your jar

jarsigner -keystore keystore.jks JAuth.jar JAuth

Edit the JAuth.jnlp file to reflect your local webserver path. Copy the JAuth.jnlp and JAuth.jar files into the webserver path.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to bookest (Christopher Grim) for the secret key dialog code

Installer Software Install4j from ej-technologies

Many thanks for the open-source license

http://www.ej-technologies.com/products/install4j/overview.html

PasscodeGenerator and Base32String code from

sweis@google.com

LCD Font from

LCD Background png from

E-LAB Computers

http://www.e-lab.de/components/lcd_and_keyboard_en.html modified from http://www.e-lab.de/diverse/LCD2x16.jpg

Layout code from jgoodies.com

JGoodies Karsten Lentzsch

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