I have some questions.

 - Is the proposal that Chrome detects such a redirect and sends an
authentication request to IDP?
 - Is there at most one IDP for a profile?
 - How is IDP registered to Chrome?

Thanks,

On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 6:18 AM Owen Min <[email protected]> wrote:

> +people who may be interested in this.
>
> On Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 12:21:51 PM UTC-4 Sasha Tokarev wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a proposal to integration with Windows SSO in Chrome.
>>
>> Currently Windows has ability to join device to cloud identity, like AAD,
>> MSA. When a device is joined to a cloud identity provider (IDP), it would
>> be great if I’m as a user do not need enter credentials, when I’m using a
>> service, which uses IDP where my device is joined to. I’m consented to have
>> single sign on (SSO) when I joined the device, and trust IDP to protect my
>> identity and do not allow an authorized access. If I do not trust, I should
>> not join my device. Additionally, sometimes web resources, that I’m
>> accessing to as a user, are owned by organization where I work or study.
>> Hence, an organization administrator should be able to manage access to
>> such resources based on the quality of my device, e.g., prevent access if
>> the device doesn’t make malware scans or doesn’t have latest security
>> patches etc.
>>
>> Edge has this feature built in, in Chrome we must use a special extension
>> https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/windows-10-accounts/ppnbnpeolgkicgegkbkbjmhlideopiji
>>
>> While using extension works, the built-in experience is better, as we
>> have with Windows Integrated authentication.
>>
>> In high level it should work like this, if I’m accessing to a resource,
>> from a joined device.
>>
>>    1. *Resource* (e.g., www.mywork.com) will redirect me for the
>>    authentication to the cloud identity provider(
>>    https://login.microsoftonline.com). The request will have a redirect
>>    URI that IDP will use to return a token.
>>    2. *User agent* (Chrome) will detect this navigation and call an OS
>>    API for producing a crypto-protected SSO cookies, which has device and 
>> user
>>    information. This cookie will be appended to the request as a header or
>>    cookie.
>>    3. *Cloud identity provider* ( https://login.microsoftonline.com ):
>>       1. Detects presence of the SSO cookies, validates them by checking
>>       signature, and authenticates the user and device.
>>       2. Validates that the supplied redirect uri is registered for this
>>       application.
>>       3. Validates if the resource owner (enterprise admin or user)
>>       authorizes access to the resource.
>>       4. Applies consent policy and ask consent if needed, for example
>>       enterprises, when they own the resource can pre-consent access by their
>>       employees. Note, It is responsibility of IDP to ensure that only 
>> authorized
>>       and consented applications can access users’ identity.
>>       5. Read device identity, and checks the state of device, that
>>       reported out of band by device management system.
>>       6. If all checks are fine, the IDP redirect back to the resource
>>       with a token.
>>    4. *User agent* (Chrome) should not do much, just to make sure it
>>    will not include SSO headers (as in case of some HTTP Redirects user-agent
>>    repeats the same headers) and cookies to the resource, to prevent its
>>    disclosure.
>>    5. *Resource* gets the token and provides service to the user.
>>
>>
>>
>> Note, a malicious web site will not be able to access user identity
>> without explicit user consent, and if it is an enterprise account, then it
>> should check admin authorization for this application. One may think that
>> if we have SSO, now we need to think about protection from malicious web
>> sites. However, this issue is not relevant to SSO, as if a user has either
>> MSA or AAD, most likely she or he will enter credentials at some moment,
>> and IDP will store persistent cookie. As a result, IDP still needs to
>> protect from a malicious web site, that is why all protocols that use
>> redirection has special handling for such cases, i.e. the IDP must redirect
>> on initially pre-registered for this client redirect URI
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-3.1.2
>>
>> SSO itself reduces number of prompts, OS cookies are hardware crypto
>> protected and short-lived, while protection of web-cookies is lower.
>> Integration with OS SSO not just a convenience feature but increases users’
>> security.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Aleksandr
>>
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