TLS on Web Servers is nearly ubiquitous now and works great. Trying to use
mutual TLS on many platforms results in a nearly intractable user experience,
where the end-users are asked to install certificates into certificate stores.
Success rates for those UXs are very low.
And it's even worse than that. If you use multiple browsers, you'll have to
get the person to install the client certificates into multiple certificate
stores. For instance, on Windows, Edge, Firefox, and Chrome all use different
certificate stores.
Server-side TLS works because end-users don't have to do anything difficult to
use it. That can't be said for client-side TLS.
-- Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: OAuth <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Torsten Lodderstedt
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 11:54 PM
To: Justin Richer <[email protected]>
Cc: oauth <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [OAUTH-WG] New Version Notification for
draft-fett-oauth-dpop-03.txt
> On 22. Nov 2019, at 15:24, Justin Richer <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I’m going to +1 Dick and Annabelle’s question about the scope here. That was
> the one major thing that struck me during the DPoP discussions in Singapore
> yesterday: we don’t seem to agree on what DPoP is for. Some (including the
> authors, it seems) see it as a quick point-solution to a specific use case.
> Others see it as a general PoP mechanism.
>
> If it’s the former, then it should be explicitly tied to one specific set of
> things. If it’s the latter, then it needs to be expanded.
as a co-author of the DPoP draft I state again what I said yesterday: DPoP is a
mechanism for sender-constraining access tokens sent from SPAs only. The threat
to be prevented is token replay.
The general mechanism for sender constrained access token should be TLS-based
as recommended by the Security BCP (see
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftools.ietf.org%2Fhtml%2Fdraft-ietf-oauth-security-topics-13%23section-3.2&data=02%7C01%7CMichael.Jones%40microsoft.com%7Cfa8cfb57efe34b5dfafa08d76f21234d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637100060427907236&sdata=tvqS9JnASGHWeVZnxm0x6Rr7sSCaMX5Hd7ImpyoN%2BqE%3D&reserved=0).
Why: that’s the easiest way from a client developer's perspective.
Application level signatures, on the other hand, are inherently more fragile as
illustrated by the OAuth 1 experience. They also require additional effort (and
state) on the server side to implement replay detection.
As kind of an entertaining read I added two posts/threads from 2010, when this
WG discussed whether TLS/SSL should be the primary OAuth 2.0 security mechanism.
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailarchive.ietf.org%2Farch%2Fmsg%2Foauth%2FcrVvDNtbdN0E0ccmk5fLdNS66v0&data=02%7C01%7CMichael.Jones%40microsoft.com%7Cfa8cfb57efe34b5dfafa08d76f21234d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637100060427907236&sdata=EYJcPaUIPorvsaZtHTcRhztyoc7aT5HvoISpCe%2FJi2w%3D&reserved=0
https://nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailarchive.ietf.org%2Farch%2Fbrowse%2Foauth%2F%3Fgbt%3D1%26index%3Dxvlxuly1DjQiZgWZpHwgj7q2k0g&data=02%7C01%7CMichael.Jones%40microsoft.com%7Cfa8cfb57efe34b5dfafa08d76f21234d%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C637100060427907236&sdata=EaoRe%2BF2guKYB%2B9exMnl3oeyAEmS3%2FvQXV2BcXgYyOg%3D&reserved=0
The decision to go with TLS only was, in my opinion, one of the key success
factors that made OAuth 2 so incredibly successful.
To re-state: From my perspective, DPoP is intended to be used by SPA developers
only for token replay detection (or better put to provide RSs with the
pre-requisites to do so).
Why? Because we unfortunately currently lack a TLS-based mechanism for
sender-constraining.
Building it on asymmetrical crypto only makes it easier to implement and to
handle than methods based on shared secrets.
I also think we must look for alternative methods to enable TLS-based methods
in the browser.
>
> I’ll repeat what I said at the mic line: My take is that we should explicitly
> narrow down DPoP so that it does exactly one thing and solves one narrow use
> case. And for a general solution? Let’s move that discussion into the next
> major revision of the protocol where we’ll have a bit more running room to
> figure things out.
>
> — Justin
>
>> On Nov 22, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Dick Hardt <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 3:08 PM Neil Madden <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> On 22 Nov 2019, at 01:42, Richard Backman, Annabelle <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> There are key distribution challenges with that if you are doing validation
>>> at the RS, but validation at the RS using either approach means you’ve lost
>>> protection against replay by the RS. This brings us back to a core
>>> question: what threats are in scope for DPoP, and in what contexts?
>>
>> Agreed, but validation at the RS is premature optimisation in many cases.
>> And if you do need protection against that the client can even append a
>> confirmation key as a caveat and retrospectively upgrade a bearer token to a
>> pop token. They can even do transfer of ownership by creating copies of the
>> original token bound to other certificates/public keys.
>>
>> While validation at the RS may be an optimization in many cases, it is still
>> a requirement for deployments.
>>
>> I echo Annabelle's last question: what threats are in scope (and out of
>> scope) for DPoP?
>>
>>
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