Hi Nat,

please explain the attack. I assume the attacker would need to control network 
transmission or client device.

kind regards,
Torsten.

> Am 01.05.2016 um 07:36 schrieb Nat Sakimura <sakim...@gmail.com>:
> 
> It actually depends on what risk level the transaction is at. For low risk 
> transactions, just having separate redirection endpoint may be adequate. On 
> the other hand, I can easily think of an attack that replaces iss on the 
> authz response making the control invalid posing questions on whether it is 
> worth introducing it. 
>> On Sun, May 1, 2016 at 14:21 Justin Richer <jric...@mit.edu> wrote:
>> I agree that we’re getting dangerously close to recommending signed 
>> assertions at every step of the process, thereby bypassing HTTP. This was 
>> the same mistake that WS-* and SOAP made, let’s not repeat it if we can.
>> 
>>  — Justin
>> 
>>> On Apr 30, 2016, at 10:57 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt <tors...@lodderstedt.net> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi Nat,
>>> 
>>> sure, one could also authenticate and cryptographically protect the 
>>> redirect response. Leveraging OIDC concepts is an idea worth considering 
>>> but they should be adopted to the OAuth philosophy. The id token as used in 
>>> the hybrid flows mixes an identity assertion with elements of transport 
>>> security measures. A OAuth AS does not provide identity data to clients, so 
>>> we only need the transport security part. 
>>> I personally would prefer a OAuth response object (similar to request 
>>> object you have proposed) over the id token. Such a response object could 
>>> contain (and directly protect) state, code and other response values. I 
>>> consider this the more elegant design and it is easier to implement then 
>>> having detached signatures over hash values of codes or access tokens. 
>>> Moreover, it would allow to encrypt the response as well. 
>>> Generally, our threat analysis so far does not have provided justification 
>>> for cryptographically protected redirect responses. All proposals currently 
>>> on the table stop mix up and code injection using simpler mechanisms. 
>>> I think OAuth 2.0 is a huge success due to its balance of versatility, 
>>> security and _simplicity_. We definitely need to keep it secure, but we 
>>> should also keep it as simple as possible.
>>> kind regards,
>>> Torsten.
>>>> Am 29.04.2016 um 10:08 schrieb Nat Sakimura:
>>>> As I look at it more and more, it started to look like the problem of 
>>>> accepting tainted values without message authentication. To fix the root 
>>>> cause, we would have to authenticate response. ID Token was designed to 
>>>> also serve as a solution anticipating it. 
>>>> 
>>>> Any concrete ideas? 
>>>> 
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 04:47 Torsten Lodderstedt 
>>>>> <tors...@lodderstedt.net> wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> 
>>>>> discussion about Mix-Up and CnP seems to have stopped after the session
>>>>> in BA - at least in the OAuth WG. There is a discussion about
>>>>> mitigations in OpenId Connect going on at the OpenId Connect mailing list.
>>>>> 
>>>>> I'm very much interested to find a solution within the OAuth realm as
>>>>> I'm not interested to either implement two solutions (for OpenId Connect
>>>>> and OAuth) or adopt a OpenId-specific solution to OAuth (use id! tokens
>>>>> in the front channel). I therefore would like to see progress and
>>>>> propose to continue the discussion regarding mitigations for both threats.
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-mix-up-mitigation-00
>>>>> proposes reasonable mitigations for both attacks. There are alternatives
>>>>> as well:
>>>>> - mix up:
>>>>> -- AS specific redirect uris
>>>>> -- Meta data/turi
>>>>> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-07#section-5)
>>>>> - CnP:
>>>>> -- use of the nonce parameter (as a distinct mitigation beside state for
>>>>> counter XSRF)
>>>>> 
>>>>> Anyone having an opinion?
>>>>> 
>>>>> best regards,
>>>>> Torsten.
>>>>> 
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