Class BlacklistPasswordPolicyProviderFactory

java.lang.Object
org.keycloak.policy.BlacklistPasswordPolicyProviderFactory
All Implemented Interfaces:
PasswordPolicyProviderFactory, ProviderFactory<PasswordPolicyProvider>

public class BlacklistPasswordPolicyProviderFactory extends Object implements PasswordPolicyProviderFactory
Creates BlacklistPasswordPolicyProvider instances.

Password blacklists are simple text files where every line is a blacklisted password delimited by a newline character \n.

Blacklists can be configured via the Authentication: Password Policy section in the admin-console. A blacklist-file is referred to by its name in the policy configuration.

Blacklist location

Users can provide custom blacklists by adding a blacklist password file to the configured blacklist folder.

The location of the password-blacklists folder is derived as follows

  1. the value of the System property keycloak.password.blacklists.path if configured - fails if folder is missing
  2. the value of the SPI config property: blacklistsPath when explicitly configured - fails if folder is missing
  3. otherwise $KC_HOME/data/password-blacklists/ if nothing else is configured
To configure the blacklist folder via CLI use --spi-password-policy-password-blacklist-blacklists-path=/path/to/blacklistsFolder

Note that the preferred way for configuration is to copy the password file to the $KC_HOME/data/password-blacklists/ folder

A password blacklist with the filename 10_million_passwords.txt that is located beneath $KC_HOME/data/keycloak/blacklists/ can be referred to as 10_million_passwords.txt in the Authentication: Password Policy configuration.

False positives

The current implementation uses a probabilistic data-structure called BloomFilter which allows for fast and memory efficient containment checks, e.g. whether a given password is contained in a blacklist, with the possibility for false positives. By default a false positive probability DEFAULT_FALSE_POSITIVE_PROBABILITY is used. To change the false positive probability via CLI configuration use --spi-password-policy-password-blacklist-false-positive-probability=0.00001

Author:
Thomas Darimont