[[!tag announce qvisqve]]

My company, QvarnLabs Ab, has today released the first alpha version of our new product, Qvisqve. Below is the press release. I wrote pretty much all the code, and it's free software (AGPL+).

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Helsinki, Finland - 2018-02-09. QvarnLabs Ab is happy to announce the first public release of Qvisqve, an authorisation server and identity provider for web and mobile applications. Qvisqve aims to be secure, lightweight, fast, and easy to manage. "We have big plans for Qvisqve, and helping customers' manage cloud identities" says Kaius Häggblom, CEO of QvarnLabs.

In this alpha release, Qvisqve supports the OAuth2 client credentials grant, which is useful for authenticating and authorising automated systems, including IoT devices. Qvisqve can be integrated with any web service that can use OAuth2 and JWT tokens for access control.

Future releases will provide support for end-user authentication by implementing the OpenID Connect protocol, with a variety of authentication methods, including username/password, U2F, TOTP, and TLS client certificates. Multi-factor authentication will also be supported. "We will make Qvisqve be flexible for any serious use case", says Lars Wirzenius, software architect at QvarnLabs. "We hope Qvisqve will be useful to the software freedom ecosystem in general" Wirzenius adds.

Qvisqve is developed and supported by QvarnLabs Ab, and works together with the Qvarn software, which is award-winning free and open-source software for managing sensitive personal information. Qvarn is in production use in Finland and Sweden and manages over a million identities. Both Qvisqve and Qvarn are released under the Affero General Public Licence.