Re: [Acme] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-yusef-acme-3rd-party-device-attestation-01.txt

It seems like the core of this draft is identifier delegation.  Namely, the
CA recognizes the DA as an authority for a certain identifier space (e.g.,
the first few octets of a MAC address), and the JWT delegates permission to
issue certificates for some identifier in that space to the Client.

Given that, it seems to me like this could fit under the rubric of the
"authority token" challenge.  If you were to do what this draft wants to do
with that framework, the Client would have two separate interactions -- an
OAuth interaction with the DA to get a token, then an ACME interaction with
the CA to issue the certificate.  The only specification needed would be to
specify the identifier and token type, as has been done for TNAuthList [2].

The only thing that would then be missing with regard to this draft is that
the CA wouldn't provide the redirect to the DA.  Whether that makes sense
depends on the use case, but I suspect that in most cases it does not.  The
design in the draft presumes there's a single DA per identifier, and that
the CA keeps a mapping table from possible identifiers to DAs.  That seems
unlikely for most identifier spaces and most CAs with reasonably broad
coverage.  So losing this property of the draft doesn't seem like a big
issue.

So net/net, I think this draft should be restructured along the lines of
[2], to just define a token type and maybe an identifier type.

--Richard

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-acme-authority-token
[2]
https://tools.ietf.org/wg/acme/draft-ietf-acme-authority-token-tnauthlist/

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 12:33 PM Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <rifaat.ietf@gmail.com>
wrote:

> All,
>
> I have just submitted new updated version to address the issues raised by
> Ilari and Ryan.
> I would appreciate any more reviews and comments.
>
> Regards,
>  Rifaat
>
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> To: Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <rifaat.ietf@gmail.com>
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> A new version of I-D, draft-yusef-acme-3rd-party-device-attestation-01.txt
> has been successfully submitted by Rifaat Shekh-Yusef and posted to the
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> Name:           draft-yusef-acme-3rd-party-device-attestation
> Revision:       01
> Title:          Third-Party Device Attestation for ACME
> Document date:  2019-01-16
> Group:          Individual Submission
> Pages:          9
> URL:
> https://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-yusef-acme-3rd-party-device-attestation-01.txt
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> Abstract:
>    This document defines a Third-Party Device Attestation for ACME
>    mechanism to allow the ACME CA to delegate some of its authentication
>    and authorization functions to a separate trusted entity, to automate
>    the issuance of certificates to devices.
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