Am 03.01.20 um 11:33 schrieb Torsten Lodderstedt:
> Hi Brian, 
>
> I’m on the fence regarding your proposal. 
>
> What I like is it moves the focus onto leakage prevention and prevention of 
> injection in the authorization response, which are the direct threats to the 
> front channel flow. Especially token leakage prevention somehow got lost in 
> the process. 
Indeed, we should check again if leakage prevention is sufficiently
emphasized in the BCP.
>
> Beside this, your proposal does not change the meaning of the spec since 
> sender constrained access tokens are still recommended through 3.2. 
>
> I’m not sure it is worth the change now taking into account how much energy 
> it has cost to come up with a consensus for this piece of text. I would 
> encourage more WG members to share their thoughts. 

I'm with Annabelle on this: These kinds of exceptions are exactly what
the SHOULD NOT is for.

-Daniel


>
> best regards,
> Torsten. 
>
>> On 2. Jan 2020, at 22:53, Richard Backman, Annabelle 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Brian and others with similar use cases (Filip?):
>>  
>> The current text does not prohibit your approach, provided you’ve done the 
>> due diligence required by BCP 14 to go against a SHOULD NOT. Could you 
>> provide more detail on the scenarios where you have opted to use these 
>> implicit-based solutions? Is it impractical or infeasible to use an 
>> authorization code-based approach in these scenarios? If this is a 
>> particularly niche use case, then it may not be worth including in the BCP 
>> (that’s basically what SHOULD NOT is for). But if it’s more broadly 
>> applicable, then it may be worth tweaking the “unless…” clause of that 
>> paragraph.
>>  
>> – 
>> Annabelle Richard Backman
>> AWS Identity
>>  
>>  
>> From: OAuth <[email protected]> on behalf of Mike Jones 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Date: Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 9:47 AM
>> To: Brian Campbell <[email protected]>, Torsten Lodderstedt 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Cc: oauth <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] [EXTERNAL] -security-topics-13 and OIDC response 
>> types + form_post response mode
>>  
>> I agree with Brian's suggested text changes.
>>
>> -- Mike
>> From: Brian Campbell <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Saturday, December 28, 2019 5:33:24 AM
>> To: Torsten Lodderstedt <[email protected]>
>> Cc: Mike Jones <[email protected]>; oauth <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] [EXTERNAL] -security-topics-13 and OIDC response 
>> types + form_post response mode
>>  
>> The requirement for replay/injection prevention at resource servers is still 
>> there in section 3.2. This change only drops it as a specific qualification 
>> on that SHOULD NOT for flows that send access tokens in the authorization 
>> response. And instead focuses that qualification on the additional risks 
>> that come with sending access tokens in the authorization response. To me, 
>> this feels more consistent. 
>>  
>> Looking again at section 3, I'd suggest also moving the fourth paragraph of 
>> section 3.1.2 into section 3.2 so that the description of sender-constrained 
>> is in the subsection that is about sender-constraining. 
>>  
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019, 5:00 PM Torsten Lodderstedt 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Your proposal sounds reasonable on first sight. But thinking again, it 
>>> would mean to keep token injection prevention in authorization responses a 
>>> requirement while dropping the requirement for replay/injection prevention 
>>> at resource servers. To me this feels inconsistent.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Am 28..12.2019 um 00:02 schrieb Brian Campbell 
>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not suggesting that it should be a recommended flow. But recommending 
>>>> against it, as the text does now, seems overreaching and unnecessary. I 
>>>> know *consensus* was previously found on the text in -13 but best I can 
>>>> recall that discussion was mostly around Nat advocating to allow room for 
>>>> some future self-issued IDP type case and the conversation kind of got 
>>>> hung up on that.
>>>>  
>>>> Here's some proposed text, which I think still largely captures the intent 
>>>> of the BCP while not explicitly recommending against legitimate cases like 
>>>> the one I brought here or Nat's or something like JARM.
>>>>  
>>>>    In order to avoid these issues, clients SHOULD NOT use the implicit
>>>>    grant (response type "token") or other response types issuing
>>>>    access tokens in the authorization response, unless access token 
>>>> injection
>>>>    in the authorization response is prevented and the aforementioned token 
>>>> leakage
>>>>    vectors are mitigated. 
>>>>  
>>>> The draft already recommends sender-constrained access tokens elsewhere in 
>>>> the document. It doesn't need to be repeated as a qualifying condition 
>>>> around this SHOULD NOT.
>>>>  
>>>> I am a proponent of PoP/HoK/sender-constrained access tokens (as hopefully 
>>>> is evident from several attempts at bringing/doing related work here) but 
>>>> I do worry that the recommendation in the draft is sufficiently 
>>>> unachievable to the vast majority that it might undermine the credibility 
>>>> of the document. But I get the aspirational aspect of it and, other 
>>>> thansome suggested tweaks, am resigned to see it stay in the document. But 
>>>> let's let that recommendation stand on its own in the document and not 
>>>> also tie it to other considerations. 
>>>>  
>>>>  
>>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 1:41 PM Torsten Lodderstedt 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>> As Brian said, we have discussed this several times and this text found 
>>>>> consensus.
>>>>>  
>>>>> Using post reduces the attack surface but does not allow to bind the 
>>>>> access token to the legitimate client. We are recommending sender 
>>>>> constrained access tokens in the BCP. So recommending a flow that does 
>>>>> not support sender constrained access tokens is a contradiction.
>>>>>  
>>>>> What do other WG members think?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am 27.12.2019 um 21:28 schrieb Mike Jones 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I agree with Brian. Please update the text to describe this already safe 
>>>>>> usage.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- Mike
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: OAuth <[email protected]> on behalf of Brian Campbell 
>>>>>> <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Sent: Friday, December 27, 2019 11:03:30 AM
>>>>>> To: oauth <[email protected]>
>>>>>> Subject: [EXTERNAL] [OAUTH-WG] -security-topics-13 and OIDC response 
>>>>>> types + form_post response mode
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> We have a-sometimes used scenario where a client makes an 
>>>>>> authorization/authentication request with a "token id_token" response 
>>>>>> type and "form_post" response mode (nonce is also sent and exact 
>>>>>> redirect URI matching is done at the AS). The access token is never 
>>>>>> exposed in any URLs and access token injection is prevented by the 
>>>>>> at_hash claim in the id token.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> That seems to me like a legitimate and reasonable usage scenario. 
>>>>>> However, it would fall on the wrong side of the SHOULD NOT in Section 
>>>>>> 3.1.2 of the Security BCP-to-be, which has:
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>    In order to avoid these issues, clients SHOULD NOT use the implicit
>>>>>>    grant (response type "token") or any other response type issuing
>>>>>>    access tokens in the authorization response, such as "token id_token"
>>>>>>    and "code token id_token", unless the issued access tokens are
>>>>>>    sender-constrained and access token injection in the authorization
>>>>>>    response is prevented.
>>>>>>  
>>>>>> I know this particular text has been discussed over and over again so I 
>>>>>> hate to revisit it. But based on the aforementioned scenario I think 
>>>>>> maybe it still doesn't quite hit the mark. Access token injection is 
>>>>>> prevented. The token leakage scenarios mentioned in that section are all 
>>>>>> avoided. And while I know sender-constrained is recommended elsewhere in 
>>>>>> the draft, it's not really a realistic option for the majority of 
>>>>>> deployments.
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