2-factor authentication for IoT.
Recently I took part in the DeveloperWeek Hackathon in San Francisco. I had wanted to take part in a hackathon for a long time and I was finally going to be in town and had someone to go work on a project with. We decided to build a 2-factor authentication system for the Internet of Things because we had both seen the recent doll house order through amazon alexa that made the news. The goal was to build an Alexa Skill and a python module that would allow us to abstract all of the 2-factor authentication from the code. SMS Messaging For the python module, we used the Flowroute Messaging SDK to build our 2-factor authentication system. It provides nice helpers and controllers to easily manage your service. We set up a developer account and picked a number for our service and we were ready to go. It didn’t take much work on the Flowroute side to get up and going and if you are interested, there are plenty of tutorials available online for using their service. Once we had the Flowroute messaging working added in the 2-factor logic of generating a number and exposing it as a method. We could then add this to our Alexa Skill we were going to build. Alexa Skill Regarding the Alexa Skill, we wanted to create a fairly simple skill to show the use case we intended for 2-factor authentication. We built a small information portal that would generate sales data for you. To manage our alexa skill we used the alexa flask-ask python flask modified framework that helps you easily develop an alexa skill. We followed this tutorial to help get ourselves started and then customized our skill. The code for our skill is available on github here.
Result
We made a github page and hosted our code in a repository for others to use or reference. https://bypass-auth2.github.io/
https://github.com/bypass-auth2/bypass_auth
