diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index a4d6dacd3..91c80c685 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -10,3 +10,6 @@ path = external/linphone-sdk
 [submodule "external/google/chromium-depot-tools"]
 	path = external/google/chromium-depot-tools
 	url = https://gitlab.linphone.org/BC/public/external/chromium-depot-tools.git
+[submodule "external/jwt-cpp"]
+	path = external/jwt-cpp
+	url = https://github.com/Thalhammer/jwt-cpp.git
diff --git a/external/jwt-cpp b/external/jwt-cpp
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..0a503e750
--- /dev/null
+++ b/external/jwt-cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit 0a503e75084cfdb48cc2186e6b961444eb819007