On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Andy McKay <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> We'll probably want to provide some sort of "token narrowing" API to
> enable this in a more secure fashion.
>
> If for example, Mozilla Concrete has a token with scope
> "profile+payments+SuperSecretOtherThing", then it doesn't want to pass
> that token directly to other services.  Instead, it could call some API
> on the oauth server to generate a fresh subsidiary token with only
> "payments" scope, and pass that token to the payments service.”
>

We're working on "refresh" tokens for the oauth-server, which can request
time-bound, scope-limited access tokens:
https://github.com/mozilla/fxa-oauth-server/issues/209#issuecomment-78161848


> Any comments?
>
>
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