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title: "Configure a quick authentication method"
slug: "dpo-configure-a-quick-authentication-method"
updated: 2026-10-27T20:13:12Z
published: 2026-10-27T20:13:12Z
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# Configure a quick authentication method

## Introduction

Quick Authentication, or Quick Auth, enables you to create a faster authentication experience for users in areas with slow networks or who use low-bandwidth devices. Regular authentication requires two round trips between the App SDK and the Auth Server. Quick Auth cuts out one of those round trips.

Control Quick Authentication through a FIDO policy. Quick Auth applies to the UAF and FIDO2 authenticators. Quick Authentication can be used during regular authentication and Adaptive Authentication. Configure Quick Auth by setting a value for the **Quick Authentication** attribute in a FIDO policy.

The table below shows what each value means when the Auth Server receives a Quick Auth request for both a regular authentication and Adaptive Authentication request.

| **Value** | **Regular Authentication** | **Adaptive Authentication** |
| --- | --- | --- |
| allow | Processes the Quick Auth payload, verifies the signature. If the authenticator matches what is approved in the policy, then authentication succeeds. Otherwise, it fails. | Same as regular authentication. If Quick Auth succeeds and there are other auth methods contained in the sequence, then authentication continues with the next method. |
| ignore | Ignores the Quick Auth payload in the request and falls back to doing regular authentication with the current authentication method. | Ignores the Quick Auth payload in the request and falls back to doing normal Adaptive Authentication with the current authentication method. |
| disallow | Authentication fails, no processing is done. | Authentication fails, no processing is done. |

> When you use Quick Auth with Adaptive Authentication, you must pay careful attention to the Adaptive Rules you create. Quick Auth only makes sense in an authentication sequence that contains a single FIDO authentication method or External Authentication method. Creating an authentication sequence with multiple FIDO authentication methods and non-FIDO authentication methods eliminates the advantages of Quick Auth.

## Configure Quick Auth

1. In the Admin Console, navigate to **Authentication > FIDO Policies**.
2. Add a new policy or edit an existing policy.
3. Enable FIDO UAF or FIDO2 authenticators by doing one or both of the following:
  1. In the **FIDO UAF Authenticators** panel, check **Allow FIDO UAF Authenticators**.
  2. In the **FIDO2/WebAuthn Authenticators** panel, check **Allow FIDO2/WebAuthn Authenticators**.
4. On the **Policy Details** page, in the **Additional Features** panel, select a value from the dropdown for **Quick Authentication**.
5. To enable Quick Authentication in your application, see *Registering for Quick Authentication* in the [iOS](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-implementing-authentication-in-your-app-1#registering), [Android](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-android-implementing-authentication-in-your-app-1#registering), and [Web](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-web-implementing-authentication-in-your-web-app-1#registering) Developer Guides, and *Implementing Quick Authentication* in the [iOS](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-implementing-authentication-in-your-app-1#signin), [Android](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-android-implementing-authentication-in-your-app-1#signin), and [Web](/dpoa/docs/s3suite94-web-implementing-authentication-in-your-web-app-1#signin) Developer Guides.