Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-19 Thread Antonio Sanso
To: Prateek Mishra Cc: oauth@ietf.orgmailto:oauth@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow Typically the implicit callback JS is part of the application that is already loaded and cached in the browser. The implicit flow doesn’t depend on on the fragment not being re-appended

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread Adam Lewis
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2015 3:31 PM To: Prateek Mishra Cc: oauth@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow Typically the implicit callback JS is part of the application that is already loaded and cached in the browser. The implicit flow doesn't depend

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread Bill Burke
On 2/10/2015 8:15 AM, John Bradley wrote: The issue is maintaining key material in the browser. Web Crypto will help with that , but is not deployed widely in browsers at the moment. Thinking about it a bit someone could make a more secure flow for JS clients using code and some Connect

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread John Bradley
The nonce allows the client to insert a unique value into the id_token to associate it with a particular browser session(Think SAML RequstID). That is useful for web server based clients. It may or may not be useful in the JS case, as the client is the browser. While code can only be used

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread John Bradley
@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow Typically the implicit callback JS is part of the application that is already loaded and cached in the browser. The implicit flow doesn’t depend on on the fragment not being re-appended to the resource location URI in the 302

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread Sergey Beryozkin
Hi John On 09/02/15 22:59, John Bradley wrote: The security problem was people only doing host name matching on redirect_uri and attackers finding redirectors to use. That impacted all public clients not just implicit. Implicit took most of the heat because that was what Facebook was using,

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread Bill Burke
On 2/10/2015 7:06 AM, Brian Campbell wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 3:59 PM, John Bradley ve7...@ve7jtb.com mailto:ve7...@ve7jtb.com wrote: Connect has a response_mode that allows the response to be form encoded rather than fragment. I read RFC 5849 as only allowing code to be

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread John Bradley
The code and implicit response_type are defined in RFC 6749. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.1.2 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-4.2.2 It describes one way to encode the response in each case with no mention of that being extended. In the text there is no normative

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread Prateek Mishra
[mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org]*On Behalf Of*John Bradley *Sent:*Monday, February 09, 2015 3:31 PM *To:*Prateek Mishra *Cc:*oauth@ietf.org mailto:oauth@ietf.org *Subject:*Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow Typically the implicit callback JS is part of the application that is already loaded

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-10 Thread John Bradley
The issue is maintaining key material in the browser. Web Crypto will help with that , but is not deployed widely in browsers at the moment. Thinking about it a bit someone could make a more secure flow for JS clients using code and some Connect extensions now. If I were concerned about

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread Bill Burke
Due to the security risks of implicit Grant flow, our Javascript adapter only supports Auth Code Grant flow. Our IDP has an extra step of allowing you to specify a valid CORS origin for an application. Anybody see any problems with this kind of approach? Implicit Grant Flow just seemed

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread John Bradley
If you don't have a client secret, or are storing the the client secret in the Javascrypt, then you are probably more at risk using code than implicit. Implicit is risky because running a OAuth client in the browser is risky. Using code in that case makes it no better, and arguably worse.

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread Bill Burke
If you don't have a client secret, why is Javascript-based auth code grant flow more risky? We also require SSL and valid redirect URI patterns to be registered for the application. The code can only ever be sent to specific URLs and can only be used once. CORS origin validation is also an

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread John Bradley
You are passing code in a query parameter, and without a secret that is more likely to be leaked than sending token in the fragment directly from the authorization endpoint to the browser JS in a fragment. You have several extra round trips for no security benefit. In your case the code in

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread John Bradley
Typically the implicit callback JS is part of the application that is already loaded and cached in the browser. The implicit flow doesn’t depend on on the fragment not being re-appended to the resource location URI in the 302. It would admittedly be more secure if that didn’t happen.

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread John Bradley
OK, I don't know if the WG has discussed the issue of fragments in browser history. So you are trading off several round trips against the possibility of a token leaking in browser history or bookmark? One extension that Connect introduced was a code id_token response type that is fragment

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread Reddick, Anwar
section of RFC 6749. E. Anwar Reddick Research Scientist Georgia Tech Research Institute - Reply message - From: Bill Burke bbu...@redhat.com To: John Bradley ve7...@ve7jtb.com Cc: oauth@ietf.org oauth@ietf.org Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow Date: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 5

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-09 Thread John Bradley
The security problem was people only doing host name matching on redirect_uri and attackers finding redirectors to use. That impacted all public clients not just implicit. Implicit took most of the heat because that was what Facebook was using, and they had the largest issue. Connect has a

[OAUTH-WG] Confusion on Implicit Grant flow

2015-02-06 Thread Adam Lewis
Hi, Having spent most of my time with native apps and web apps, I now am looking at use cases where I need to implement a user-agent-based app. The Implicit flow seems to be optimized for this. To test my understanding, this flow is for a JavaScript client (or similar) executing within a web