Dfns

Dfns Auth API

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Business capability

Identity & Access Management BC-620.20

Operations 6

POST /auth/action/init Initialize a User Action Signing challenge #

POST /auth/action Complete a User Action Signing challenge #

POST /auth/login/delegated Delegated login #

GET /auth/users List users #

POST /auth/users Create a user #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Dfns Auth API
  description: Representative OpenAPI description of the Dfns wallet-as-a-service and MPC key-management REST API.
  contact:
    name: Dfns Support
    url: https://www.dfns.co/
  termsOfService: https://www.dfns.co/terms-of-service
  version: '1.0'
servers:
- url: https://api.dfns.io
  description: Dfns production REST API (Europe / default)
- url: https://api.uae.dfns.io
  description: Dfns production REST API (UAE region)
security:
- BearerAuth: []
  AppId: []
tags:
- name: Auth
  description: Login, User Action Signing, users, and credentials.
paths:
  /auth/action/init:
    post:
      operationId: createUserActionChallenge
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: Initialize a User Action Signing challenge
      description: Starts the User Action Signing flow for a sensitive operation, returning a challenge the client must sign with its credential.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - userActionPayload
              - userActionHttpMethod
              - userActionHttpPath
              properties:
                userActionPayload:
                  type: string
                userActionHttpMethod:
                  type: string
                userActionHttpPath:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The user action challenge.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserActionChallenge'
  /auth/action:
    post:
      operationId: completeUserAction
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: Complete a User Action Signing challenge
      description: Submits the signed challenge and returns a User Action Signature token to pass in the X-DFNS-USERACTION header of the sensitive request.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - challengeIdentifier
              - firstFactor
              properties:
                challengeIdentifier:
                  type: string
                firstFactor:
                  type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The user action signature.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/UserActionResponse'
  /auth/login:
    post:
      operationId: login
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: Complete a user login
      description: Exchanges signed login credentials for an access token.
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              properties:
                challengeIdentifier:
                  type: string
                firstFactor:
                  type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The login result including an access token.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  token:
                    type: string
  /auth/login/delegated:
    post:
      operationId: delegatedLogin
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: Delegated login
      description: Allows a service account to obtain a scoped access token on behalf of an end user for delegated (end-user-controlled) signing flows. Requires a User Action Signature.
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
        AppId: []
        UserAction: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - username
              properties:
                username:
                  type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The delegated access token.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  token:
                    type: string
  /auth/users:
    get:
      operationId: listUsers
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: List users
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of users in the organization.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
    post:
      operationId: createUser
      tags:
      - Auth
      summary: Create a user
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
        AppId: []
        UserAction: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - email
              properties:
                email:
                  type: string
                kind:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - CustomerEmployee
                  - EndUser
      responses:
        '200':
          description: The created user.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  schemas:
    UserActionChallenge:
      type: object
      properties:
        challenge:
          type: string
        challengeIdentifier:
          type: string
        allowCredentials:
          type: object
    UserActionResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        userAction:
          type: string
          description: The User Action Signature token to pass in X-DFNS-USERACTION.
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: JWT
      description: 'Access token issued to a service account or a logged-in user. Sent as `Authorization: Bearer <token>`.'
    AppId:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-DFNS-APPID
      description: The Dfns application (app) id the request is made on behalf of.
    UserAction:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-DFNS-USERACTION
      description: A User Action Signature token proving the caller cryptographically signed the request payload. Required on sensitive mutating operations (transfers, signature generation, key/policy/permission changes).