Re: [OAUTH-WG] client certs and TLS Terminating Reverse Proxies (was Re: I-D Action: draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-introspection-response-08.txt)

[Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <[e-mail]>]

Thanks Brian,

I guess my question is: given RFC7239 and the fact that it is
straightforward to secure the channel between the terminating reverse proxy
and the backend service in a cluster, is there anything, from a standard
perspective, that we need to do beyond defining a new parameter to carry
the client certificate information?
You seem suggest that the answer is yes. If so, can you please elaborate on
why is that?

Regards,
 Rifaat



On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:42 AM Brian Campbell <[e-mail]>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Oct 26, 2019 at 3:55 PM Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 3:47 PM Brian Campbell <
>> [e-mail]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I did look at RFC7239 when doing that and it could have been made to
>>> work but felt the fit wasn't quite right and would have been more
>>> cumbersome to use than not.
>>>
>>>
>> Can you elaborate on this?
>> These days, with the zero trust model in mind, there are orchestration
>> tools, e.g. Istio, that easily allows you to establish an MTLS channel
>> between the reverse proxy/load balancer/API GW and the backend servers.
>> Why is that not sufficient?
>> Which part is cumbersome?
>>
>
> What I meant was only that in the course of writing
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tokbind-ttrp-09, which aims to
> define HTTP header fields that enable a TLS terminating reverse proxy to
> convey information to a backend server about the validated Token Binding
> Message received from a client, it seemed more straightforward and
> sufficient for the use-case to use new HTTP headers to carry the
> information rather than to use new fields in the Forwarded header framework
> from RFC7239.
>
>
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