Authentication

Aside from the SSL-level authentication, the system contacts the IOT infrastructure for a token, after which the system contacts the authentication service for the OTA infrastructure. This is conducted using basic authentication plus a standard TLS 2048-bit encryption.

The authorization token takes the following format: base64(tenantid/deviceId/epochtime:password).

The result is then passed as a header, as in the following example:

Authorization: Basic dGVuYW50aWQvdXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ=

Sample request

Authentication request URL

POST https://ps.dcms.blackberry.com/dmps/authentication/4.0.0

Authorization block

TYPE: Basic Auth

UserName: tenantId/deviceid/epochtime

Password: password

Sample response

Status: 200: OK

x-status-code: 0

x-status-message: Success

x-system-authtoken: 3yXGome+pFOJhIlFjidulQEl5dinuek1YUmP8XYIhnR+3rky3g2ZwwKTHj07aPQgiLcsMSRVziexoyI28PJb

The high-level flowchat below summarizes the authentication process: