On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 4:53 PM, Prabath Siriwardena <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Sathya,
>
> Yes... it is an extension to [1]...
>
> In this approach, we are going to avoid registration of individual
> microservices (as OAuth clients).... even no thumbprints registered... we
> identify each one as a valid client, if the CA is valid, and dynamically
> create clients for them on the fly, when they request tokens...
>

So when we dynamically creates we are going map mulitiple client ids
against the same SP?

>
> Thanks & regards,
> -Prabath
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 2:52 AM, Sathya Bandara <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> A similar concept is defined in 'OAuth 2.0 Mutual TLS Client
>> Authentication' specification [1]. There it defines two distinct methods
>> for certificate based client authentication.
>>
>> 1. PKI Mutual TLS OAuth Client Authentication
>>
>> Uses a subject distinguished name (DN) and validated certificate chain to 
>> identify the client.
>>
>> 2. Self-Signed Certificate Mutual TLS OAuth Client Authentication
>> Support client authentication using self-signed certificates.  Client
>> registers needs to associate a self-signed X.509 certificate at the time of
>> registering. The client is successfully authenticated, if the subject
>> public key info of the certificate matches the subject public key info of
>> one of the certificates configured or registered for that client.
>>
>>
>> Currently in IS we support only self-signed certificate based
>> authentication [2].
>>
>> In the first method, client needs to associate the CA certificate and
>> need to provide the DN of the signed certificate at the time of client
>> registration. During mutual TLS handshake, we only need to validate
>> client's CA certificate. The client is successfully authenticated if the
>> subject information in the certificate matches with the expected DN
>> configured or registered for that particular client.
>>
>> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-mtls-07#section-2.1
>> [2] "[Architecture] [IS 5.5.0] TLS Mutual Authentication for OAuth 2.0
>> clients"
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sathya
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Prabath Siriwardena <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I guess following scenario will be useful in a microservices deployment,
>>> when we need to secure service to service communication.
>>>
>>> Please find below the steps..
>>>
>>> 1. We create a service provider provider, and associate a CA's
>>> certificate with it.
>>> 2. Now we have multiple microservices, each with a signed certificate
>>> from the previous trusted CA.
>>> 3. Each of those microservice will be able to talk to the /token
>>> endpoint of IS (or STS), authenticate with mTLS and get a token. The token
>>> request also carries an audience value (or implied in scope).
>>> 4. IS treats, the thumbprint of the cert (preferably SVID, in a
>>> SPIFFE/Istio environment) as the client id, and the access token is issued
>>> against it (which can be a JWT as well).
>>> 5. This new access token/JWT can be used for service to service
>>> authentication, within the same domain or cross domain.
>>>
>>> This helps to onboard all the microservices, carrying a key pair (as
>>> their workload identity) to an OAuth environment.
>>>
>>> WDYT..?
>>>
>>> Thanks & Regards,
>>> Prabath
>>>
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