Hi Sergey, 

I believe we would make faster progress on security topics if could
focus on listing security requirements we have and what threats we want
to mitigate. The reason why we have not finished this topic is simply
because everyone was just talking about specific (but incomplete)
solutions. You are unfortunately falling in the same trap as well. 

If you really care about the topic then have a look at the mentioned
document and tell us whether the requirements are complete. 
Reading through the document you will notice that there a few more
considerations to pay attention to than just the few listed below. 

Ciao
Hannes


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of ext Sergey Beryozkin
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 1:23 PM
> To: Hannes Tschofenig
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] What needs to be done to complete MAC
> 
> Hi Hannes
> On 26/11/12 19:01, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> > Hi Sergey,
> >
> > as Phil said it would be helpful for us to receive reviews of this
> document:
> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tschofenig-oauth-security-00
> >
> > The document lists requirements and threats.
> 
> 
> Let me offer two possibly naive reasons why using MAC may help, one of
> them is related to the security, another to the ease of HOK support on
> the client
> 
> 1. The most safe way to return MAC token to the client is to use a
> two-way TLS due to the mac key also returned to the client. Two-Way
TLS
> offers a stronger support for getting the client authenticated along
the
> way too
> 
> 2. Assuming HOK confirmation matters at all (and I believe it does),
> IMHO it is much simpler for a basic client implementation to apply a
MAC
> signature algo and thus work with the OAuth2 servers expecting HOK
> confirmations
> 
> One more reason is more about facilitating the further migration to
2.0
> which I tried to outline in my response to Phil Hunt
> 
> Thanks, Sergey
> 
> >
> > Ciao
> > Hannes
> >
> > On Nov 26, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Phil Hunt wrote:
> >
> >> If we want to get this done we have to get agreements on the
> requirements for HOK. Several meetings ago (quebec) the group
indicated
> that mac wasn't appropriate to anyone's needs.
> >>
> >> Some would argue that OAuth1 users arguably have less security than
> the simpler bearer token /tls model in OAuth2. This just shows the
real
> issue of demonstrated need has not been properly defined and
understood.
> >>
> >> More dialog on use cases is very helpful to moving HOK/MAC/etc
> forward.
> >>
> >> Phil
> >>
> >> On 2012-11-26, at 10:15, Sergey Beryozkin<[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi
> >>>
> >>> What needs to be done to complete the MAC token spec ? Without
> having it signed off it will be difficult to get people working with
> OAuth 1.0 convinced to move to 2.0.
> >>> I'm seeing another user request for getting OAuth 1.0 support
> extended further because the user expects it is more secure, and I
guess
> because it is proven to work for people, and I guess because many
OAuth
> 1.0 users feel that should stay from OAuth 2.0 because of some bad
press.
> >>>
> >>> Without MAC being completed the division will continue, with even
> more misleading anti-OAuth2 posts appearing (though I guess some of
the
> better posts point to some level of complexity in 2.0).
> >>>
> >>> Is it a matter of a security expert validating the text, fixing
few
> typos, and basically signing it off ?
> >>>
> >>> If someone is interested then I can provide the info offline on
how
> it MAC supported in our framework to get things tested easily and
such...
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Sergey
> >>>
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