[keycloak-dev] Abstract SMS support

[Stian Thorgersen]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thomas Raehalme" <thomas.raehalme at aitiofinland.com>
> To: "Bill Burke" <bburke at redhat.com>
> Cc: "keycloak-dev" <keycloak-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Sunday, 16 August, 2015 12:41:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [keycloak-dev] Abstract SMS support
> 
> 
> 
> Hi!
> 
> Sounds good!
> 
> However it might be a good idea to include a generic HTTP/REST implementation
> which you could configure through the admin interface to deliver SMS
> messages to any service supporting HTTP? I'm pretty sure this would satisfy
> most users.

Not sure how that would work. AFAIK SMS providers have their own proprietary rest endpoints as well as authentication mechanisms so I don't see how we could create a generic implementation. 

> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> On Aug 16, 2015 1:06 AM, "Bill Burke" < bburke at redhat.com > wrote:
> 
> 
> I was thinking that we would create abstract support for SMS support for
> Keycloak. We would define a simple Provider interface for sending text
> messages. We would not provide anything out of the box for now. We
> would require users to implement their own SMS provider and plug it in.
> 
> Basically, we'd have an SMS OTP Authenticator for both the browser login
> and reset-credentials flows. Keycloak would just send an SMS with a
> one-time secret code that you have to enter in. We also would implement
> a validate mobile number required action too.
> 
> I don't think any of this would take very long (a day or two?) once I
> get the reset-credential pluggable-flow support done.
> 
> Later on, maybe its something we could integrate with Aerogear UPS out
> of the box?
> 
> 
> 
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