OAuth Client Lifecycle
Status
This concept is planned in the documentation information architecture but is not fully documented yet.
What This Page Will Explain
This page is expected to describe the full lifecycle of OAuth clients in Keymate: registration, active use, secret rotation, and revocation. It will cover the policies that enforce bounded credential lifespans, ownership tracking, and decommission procedures.
Context already established:
The OAuth client lifecycle in Keymate covers the full span of a client credential's existence: registration, active use, secret rotation, and eventual revocation. Keymate enforces strict lifecycle policies to limit the blast radius of compromised credentials and ensure auditability of client access.
Unmanaged OAuth clients pose a significant security risk. Stale credentials, over-provisioned clients, and missing revocation procedures create attack surfaces. A well-defined lifecycle ensures that every client has a known owner, a bounded lifespan, and a clear decommission path.
Current State
The lifecycle model, rotation policies, and revocation workflows are operational but the detailed documentation of how each phase works has not been finalized.
Why This Page Is a Placeholder
This placeholder preserves the planned documentation structure without documenting behavior that has not been verified against the identity provider configuration.