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Duo Device API for Trusted Endpoints with Duo Desktop

Last Updated: October 31st, 2024

This API documentation is for Trusted Endpoints Generic Integrations which use Duo Desktop to establish trust.

Overview

Duo's Trusted Endpoints feature secures your sensitive applications by ensuring that only known devices can access Duo protected services. When a user authenticates via the Duo Prompt, we'll compare device identifiers collected by Duo Desktop installed on that endpoint with the identifiers of known Windows, macOS, and Linux devices stored in Duo. You can monitor access to your applications from trusted and untrusted devices, and optionally block access from devices not trusted by your organization.

Trusted Endpoints and the Device API are part of the Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials plans.

Before enabling the Trusted Endpoints policy on your applications, you'll need to create a device cache with the identifying information for your known devices in Duo's service using the Device API. Be sure to read the Trusted Endpoints Generic with Duo Desktop management integration instructions in full before using Device API.

Review the API Details to see how to construct your Device API request.

About the Device API

This API is automatically available to paying Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and Duo Essentials customers who are using Trusted Endpoints Generic management integrations with Duo Desktop to establish trust.

The typical usage of this API will be to start by creating a new device cache. At this point, the device cache is in a pending status and devices added to the device cache are not trusted. If an existing active device cache exists, it is not affected. Next, add devices to the pending cache. This may require more than one operation depending on the number of devices to be added. When all devices have been added to the pending device cache, activate the device cache. Activating the pending device cache will replace any existing active device cache and the device identifiers contained within will be trusted.

You will need to obtain device IDs to import into your device cache. These identifiers are the Windows Machine GUID, the macOS hardware UUID, or the Linux product/system UUID. You may be able to export the identifiers from an existing endpoint management system, or you may need to collect identifiers from your endpoints directly. See Collect Device Identifiers in the Trusted Endpoints Generic with Duo Desktop management integration instructions to learn how to find the device identifiers for Windows, macOS, and Linux systems.

Documented properties will not be removed within a stable version of the API. Once a given API endpoint is documented to return a given property, a property with that name will always appear (although certain properties may only appear under certain conditions, like if the customer is using a specific edition). When Duo deprecates a property, the API continues to accept that property in requests, although it no longer has any effect.

Properties that enumerate choices may gain new values at any time. Duo may cease to return legacy values for properties as well. Duo will update our API documentation with changes to property values in a timely fashion, adding new property values or indicating changes to existing property values.

New, undocumented properties may also appear at any time. For instance, Duo may make available a beta feature involving extra information returned by an API endpoint. Until the property is documented here its format may change or it may even be entirely removed from our API.

First Steps

Log in to the Duo Admin Panel and navigate to Devices → Trusted Endpoints.
Create a Trusted Endpoints Generic with Duo Desktop integration that uses Duo Desktop to establish trust. Please see the instructions for creating a Generic Duo Desktop integration in the Generic Duo Desktop Trust documentation.

The API credentials for use with the Device API are provided within the context of that specific Trusted Endpoints integration.
Optionally specify which IP addresses or ranges are allowed to use this Device API application in Networks for API Access. If you do not specify any IP addresses or ranges, this Device API application may be accessed from any network.

The Device API performs the IP check after verifying the authentication signature in a request. If you restrict the allowed networks for API access and see logged events for blocked Device API requests from unrecognized IP addresses, this may indicate compromise of your Device API application's secret key.

Treat your secret key like a password

The security of your Duo device trust integration is tied to the security of your API secret key (skey). Secure it as you would any sensitive credential. Don't share it with unauthorized individuals or email it to anyone under any circumstances!

API Clients

Duo Security has demonstration clients available on GitHub to call the Duo API methods.

API Details

Base URL

All API methods use your API hostname, https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com. Obtain this value from the Duo Admin Panel and use it exactly as shown there.

Methods always use HTTPS. Unsecured HTTP is not supported.

Request Format

All requests must have "Authorization" and "Date" headers.

If the request method is GET or DELETE, URL-encode parameters and send them in the URL query string like this: /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache?status=active. They still go on a separate line when creating the string to sign for an Authorization header.

Send parameters for POST requests in the body as URL-encoded key-value pairs (the same request format used by browsers to submit form data). The header "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" must also be present.

When URL-encoding, all bytes except ASCII letters, digits, underscore ("_"), period ("."), tilde ("~"), and hyphen ("-") are replaced by a percent sign ("%") followed by two hexadecimal digits containing the value of the byte. For example, a space is replaced with "%20" and an at-sign ("@") becomes "%40". Use only upper-case A through F for hexadecimal digits.

A request with parameters, as a complete URL, would look like this: https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache?status=active.

Response Format

Responses are formatted as a JSON object with a top-level stat key.

Successful responses will have a stat value of "OK" and a response key. The response will either be a single object or a sequence of other JSON types, depending on which endpoint is called.

{
  "stat": "OK",
  "response": {
    "key": "value"
  }
}

Values are returned as strings unless otherwise documented.

Unsuccessful responses will have a stat value of "FAIL", an integer code, and a message key that further describes the failure. A message_detail key may be present if additional information is available (like the specific parameter that caused the error).

{
  "stat": "FAIL",
  "code": 40002,
  "message": "Invalid request parameters",
  "message_detail": "username"
}

The HTTP response code will be the first three digits of the more specific code found inside the JSON object. Each endpoint's documentation lists HTTP response codes it can return. Additionally, all API endpoints that require a signed request can return the following HTTP response codes:

Response	Meaning
200	The request completed successfully.
401	The "Authorization", "Date", and/or "Content-Type" headers were missing or invalid.
403	This integration is not authorized for this endpoint or the ikey was created for a different integration type (for example, using an Auth API ikey with Device API endpoints).
405	The request's HTTP verb is not valid for this endpoint (for example, POST when only GET is supported).
429	The account has made too many requests of this type recently. Try again later.

Authentication

The API uses HTTP Basic Authentication to authenticate requests. Use your Duo application's integration key as the HTTP Username.

Generate the HTTP Password as an HMAC signature of the request. This will be different for each request and must be re-generated each time.

To construct the signature, first build an ASCII string from your request, using the following components:

Component	Description	Example
`date`	The current time, formatted as RFC 2822. This must be the same string as the "Date" header.	`Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:29:18 -0000`
`method`	The HTTP method (uppercase)	`POST`
`host`	Your API hostname (lowercase)	`api-xxxxxxxx.duosecurity.com`
`path`	The specific API method's path	`/device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache`
`params`	The URL-encoded list of `key=value` pairs, lexicographically sorted by key. These come from the request parameters (the URL query string for GET and DELETE requests or the request body for POST requests). If the request does not have any parameters one must still include a blank line in the string that is signed. Do not encode unreserved characters. Use upper-case hexadecimal digits A through F in escape sequences.	An example `params` list: `status=active`

Then concatenate these components with (line feed) newlines. For example:

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:29:18 -0000
POST
api-xxxxxxxx.duosecurity.com
/device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache
status=active

GET requests also use this five-line format:

Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:29:18 -0000
GET
api-xxxxxxxx.duosecurity.com
/device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache

Lastly, compute the HMAC-SHA1 of this canonical representation, using your Duo Device API application's secret key as the HMAC key. Send this signature as hexadecimal ASCII (i.e. not raw binary data). Use HTTP Basic Authentication for the request, using your integration key as the username and the HMAC-SHA1 signature as the password. Signature validation is case-insensitive, so the signature may be upper or lowercase.

For example, here are the headers for the above POST request to api-xxxxxxxx.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache, using DME0XUC77ATL3J05HSTB as the mkey, DIWJ8X6AEYOR5OMC6TQ1 as the integration key, and Zh5eGmUq9zpfQnyUIu5OL9iWoMMv5ZNmk3zLJ4Ep as the secret key:

Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 17:29:18 -0000
Authorization: Basic RElXSjhYNkFFWU9SNU9NQzZUUTE6OTU3YTRhOTJkYWRlOWUyYWYzYmEwNWQ0ZjE4YjI0ZmY1M2MyOTRmZQ==
Host: api-xxxxxxxx.duosecurity.com
Content-Length: 35
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Separate HTTP request header lines with CRLF newlines.

The following Python function can be used to construct the "Authorization" and "Date" headers:

import base64, email.utils, hmac, hashlib, urllib
   
def sign(method, host, path, params, skey, ikey):
    """
    Return HTTP Basic Authentication ("Authorization" and "Date") headers.
    method, host, path: strings from request
    params: dict of request parameters
    skey: secret key
    ikey: integration key
    """
  
    # create canonical string
    now = email.utils.formatdate()
    canon = [now, method.upper(), host.lower(), path]
    args = []
    for key in sorted(params.keys()):
        val = params[key].encode("utf-8")
        args.append(
            '%s=%s' % (urllib.parse.
                       quote(key, '~'), urllib.parse.quote(val, '~')))
    canon.append('&'.join(args))
    canon = '\n'.join(canon)
  
    # sign canonical string
    sig = hmac.new(bytes(skey, encoding='utf-8'),
                   bytes(canon, encoding='utf-8'),
                   hashlib.sha1)
    auth = '%s:%s' % (ikey, sig.hexdigest())
  
    # return headers
    return {'Date': now, 'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % base64.b64encode(bytes(auth, encoding="utf-8")).decode()}

import base64, email, hmac, hashlib, urllib

def sign(method, host, path, params, skey, ikey):
    """
    Return HTTP Basic Authentication ("Authorization" and "Date") headers.
    method, host, path: strings from request
    params: dict of request parameters
    skey: secret key
    ikey: integration key
    """

    # create canonical string
    now = email.Utils.formatdate()
    canon = [now, method.upper(), host.lower(), path]
    args = []
    for key in sorted(params.keys()):
        val = params[key]
        if isinstance(val, unicode):
            val = val.encode("utf-8")
        args.append(
            '%s=%s' % (urllib.quote(key, '~'), urllib.quote(val, '~')))
    canon.append('&'.join(args))
    canon = '\n'.join(canon)

    # sign canonical string
    sig = hmac.new(skey, canon, hashlib.sha1)
    auth = '%s:%s' % (ikey, sig.hexdigest())

    # return headers
    return {'Date': now, 'Authorization': 'Basic %s' % base64.b64encode(auth)}

Device API Endpoints

Create New Device Cache

Create a new management system device cache in pending or active status.

POST /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache

By default, a pending cache will be made, however, if you wish to make an active cache directly, you can pass in the optional parameter “active” set to “True”.

Parameters

Parameter Required? Description

Parameter	Required?	Description
`active`	Optional	Boolean string for if cache made is to be active. "True"

active

Optional

Boolean string for if cache made is to be active.

"True"

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. New device upload cache was created successfully.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
403	The target management system does not support creation of a cache.
404	No management system was found with the given `mkey`.
409	Cannot create new cache with existing pending or active cache. You may wish to DELETE the existing pending or active cache.
500	Device cache creation failed.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`status`	Status of the new device cache. Either “Active” or “Pending”.
`url`	URL representing the new device cache.

Example Response

{
    "stat": "OK",
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCBWLKD6JO8U9A0N3G6Q",
        "status": "Pending",
        "url": "https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/DM2J8BJ480EK85TIMONU/device_cache/DCBWLKD6JO8U9A0N3G6Q"
    }
}

Add Devices to a Device Cache

Add devices to an active or pending device cache.

POST /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]/devices

Object limits

1,000 device IDs per request; 250,000 device IDs per cache.

Parameters

Parameter Required? Description

Parameter	Required?	Description
`devices`	Required	List of devices to be added in JSON format. Example: [{"device_id": "<device_id>" }, {"device_id": "<device_id>"}, ...]

devices

Required

List of devices to be added in JSON format.

Example: [{"device_id": "<device_id>" },
{"device_id": "<device_id>"}, ...]

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Devices added to the device cache.
400	Invalid parameters.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No cache key `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
409	Cache is active. Devices could not be added because <count of device IDs> would exceed the limit of <max device IDs per cache>.
413	<num devices> devices are more than the limit of <num devices limit> devices.
500	Wrong method used or other internal error.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`date_created`	Date and time of device cache created creation.
`device_count`	Total number of devices added to this cache.

Example Response

{
    "stat": "OK",
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCOIV2VVMX5IFX1OW8S2",
        "date_created": "2022-02-15T17:02:22",
        "device_count": 103
    }
}

Retrieve Devices

Retrieve devices by device_id from a cache, or retrieve all devices from cache.

GET /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]/devices

The same route is used to retrieve all devices paginated, or to search up to 40 devices in a single request by the device ID.

To retrieve all devices do not pass in the device_id parameter. When retrieving all devices, passing in the limit and offset for paging parameters is optional.

To retrieve devices by ID, pass in the device_id parameter as a list of device ID strings in uuid format. Retrieving devices by ID is not paginated.

Object limits

40 device IDs per request; 250,000 device IDs per cache.

Parameters

Parameter Required? Description

Parameter	Required?	Description
`device_ids`	Optional	List of Device ID strings. Example: ["<device_id>", "<device_id>"]
`limit`	Optional	The maximum number of records returned. Default: `1000`; Max: `40.`
`offset`	Optional	The offset from 0 at which to start record retrieval. When used with "limit", the handler will return "limit" records starting at the n-th record, where n is the offset. Default: `0.`

device_ids

Optional

List of Device ID strings.

Example: ["<device_id>", "<device_id>"]

limit

Optional

The maximum number of records returned.

Default: 1000; Max: 40.

offset

Optional

The offset from 0 at which to start record retrieval.

When used with "limit", the handler will return "limit" records starting at the n-th record, where n is the offset.

Default: 0.

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Device(s) retrieved.
400	Invalid parameters.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists, or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
413	The number of devices specified in `device_ids` exceeds the effective `limit`.

Response Format

Key	Value
`date_added`	Date and time the device was added.
`device_id`	Identifier of the device that was retrieved.
`cache_key`	Cache key that device(s) were retrieved from.
`devices_retrieved`	The devices that were retrieved from the cache with their ID and the date that they were added to the cache.
`num_devices_retrieved`	The number of devices retrieved from the cache.

Example Response

Retrieve all devices in cache:

{
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCA8JB9UFGCANQ53EBRW",
        "devices_retrieved": [
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-aeee-44e3ab95d657"
            },
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-addd-44e3ab95d657"
            },
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-aaaa-44e3ab95d657"
            },
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-accc-44e3ab95d657"
            },
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-abbb-44e3ab95d657"
            }
        ],
        "limit": 1000,
        "num_devices_retrieved": 5,
        "prev_offset": 0
    },
    "stat": "OK"
}

Search device(s) by ID:

{
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCA8JB9UFGCANQ53EBRW",
        "devices_retrieved": [
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-addd-44e3ab95d657"
            },
        ],
        "num_devices_retrieved": 1
    },
    "stat": "OK"
}

Retrieve all devices using limit as 1 and offset as 4:

{
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCA8JB9UFGCANQ53EBRW",
        "devices_retrieved": [
            {
                "date_added": "2023-08-09T14:13:17",
                "device_id": "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-abbb-44e3ab95d657"
            }
        ],
        "limit": 1,
        "next_offset": 5,
        "num_devices_retrieved": 20,
        "prev_offset": 3
    },
    "stat": "OK"
}

Delete Devices from a Device Cache

Delete devices from an active or pending device cache.

DELETE /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]/devices

Object limits

40 device IDs per request; 250,000 device IDs per cache.

Parameters

Parameter Required? Description

Parameter	Required?	Description
`devices`	Required	List of devices IDs to delete. Only deletes device IDs found in the given cache. Example: ["<device_id>", "<device_id>"]

devices

Required

List of devices IDs to delete. Only deletes device IDs found in the given cache.

Example: ["<device_id>", "<device_id>"]

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Devices removed from the device cache.
400	Invalid parameters.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No cache key `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
413	Devices could not be deleted because <num devices> devices are more than the limit of <num devices limit> devices.
500	Wrong method used or other internal error.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`date_created`	Date and time of device cache creation.
`device_count`	Total number of devices remaining in the cache.

Example Response

{
    "stat": "OK",
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCOIV2VVMX5IFX1OW8S2",
        "date_created": "2022-02-15T17:02:22",
        "deleted_devices": [
            "93ea2eac-0b93-4687-aeee-44e3ab95d657"
        ],
        "device_count": 102
    }
}

Activate a Device Cache

Delete the existing activated device cache and activate this device cache.

POST /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]/activate

Parameters

None.

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. New device upload cache was created successfully.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No cache key `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
409	Cannot activate already active cache `cache_key` for management system `mkey`.
500	Device cache activation failed.

Response Format

Empty string.

Example Response

{
  "stat": "OK",
  "response": ""
}

Delete a Device Cache

Deletes a pending or active device cache.

DELETE /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]

Parameters

None.

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Device cache deleted.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
403	The target management system does not support cache deletion.
404	No cache key `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
500	Device cache deletion failed.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`status`	Status of the deleted device cache. Either "Active" or "Pending".

Example Response

{
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DCA8JB9UFGCANQ53EBRW",
        "status": "Pending"
    },
    "stat": "OK"
}

Retrieve All Existing Caches

Retrieve all caches with provided status, or all caches with any status if none specified.

GET /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache

Query Parameters

Parameter	Required?	Description
`status`	Required	Device cache status as "active" or "pending".

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Device cache retrieved.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No management system was found with the given `mkey`.
500	Failed to retrieve device cache.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`date_created`	Date and time of device cache created creation.
`device_count`	Total number of devices added to this cache.
`status`	Status of the cache as either "active" or "pending".
`url`	Device cache URL.

Example Response

{
    "stat": "OK",
    "response": [{
        "cache_key": "DC91GTT7V1FE1PTFNBUW",
        "date_created": "2022-02-14T16:48:08",
        "device_count": 123,
        "status": "active",
        "url": "https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/DMYTA3HRS9YVB96CORJ6/device_cache/DC91GTT7V1FE1PTFNBUW"
    },
    {
        "cache_key": "DCIRGVRCMUYLHBLII0OR",
        "date_created": "2022-02-15T16:48:12",
        "device_count": 125,
        "status": "pending",
        "url": "https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/DMYTA3HRS9YVB96CORJ6/device_cache/DCIRGVRCMUYLHBLII0OR"
    }
]}

Retrieve Device Cache

Retrieve a device cache.

GET /device/v1/management_systems/[mkey]/device_cache/[cache_key]

Parameters

None.

Response Codes

Response	Meaning
200	Success. Device upload cache retrieved.
401	Invalid identity in request credentials.
404	No cache key `cache_key` for the management system with `mkey` exists or no management system was found with the given `mkey`.
500	Failed to retrieve device cache.

Response Format

Key	Value
`cache_key`	Device cache unique identifier.
`date_created`	Date and time the device cache was created.
`device_count`	Total number of devices added to this cache.
`status`	Status of the cache as either "active" or "pending".
`url`	URL representing the new device cache.

Example Response

{
    "stat": "OK",
    "response": {
        "cache_key": "DC91GTT7V1FE1PTFNBUW",
        "date_created": "2022-02-14T16:48:08",        
        "device_count": 123,
        "status": "active",        
        "url": "https://api-XXXXXXXX.duosecurity.com/device/v1/management_systems/DMYTA3HRS9YVB96CORJ6/device_cache/DC91GTT7V1FE1PTFNBUW"
    }
}

Troubleshooting

Need some help? Take a look at our Device API Knowledge Base articles or Community discussions. For further assistance, contact Support.

If you receive 401 error responses to your API requests, check the following:

Is the Authorization header correctly formatted? If not, you may receive a 40101 error.
Does your framework override the Date header? The HTTP Date: header must be exactly the same string as was signed. This could result in a 40103 error.
Are the Date and time zone used RFC 3339 compliant?? If not, you may get a 40104 or 40105 response.
Are the parameters lexicographically sorted?
Did you include a line for parameters when constructing the signature, even if you're not passing in any parameters?
Are any hex digits lower-case?
Are the Content-Length and Content-Type parameters correct? If not, your parameters may be ignored or you may receive a 40103 response because your signature considered parameters that the service didn't receive.

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Feedback

Overview

About the Device API

First Steps

API Clients

API Details

Base URL

Request Format

Response Format

Authentication

Device API Endpoints

Create New Device Cache

Add Devices to a Device Cache

Retrieve Devices

Delete Devices from a Device Cache

Activate a Device Cache

Delete a Device Cache

Retrieve All Existing Caches

Retrieve Device Cache

Troubleshooting

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Delete Devices from a Device Cache

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Delete a Device Cache

Retrieve All Existing Caches

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