Re: [OAUTH-WG] Assertions: Client authentication for non-token endpoints?

Just to pile on here - the Assertions draft(s) do define client assertion
authentication only for the token endpoint (and register token endpoint
parameters). But it certainly doesn't preclude it from being profiled for
use elsewhere.

FWIW we used the token endpoint in our implementation of token
introspection/validation partly because all supported forms of client
authentication come along for free by doing so. My esteemed colleague, Dr.
Paul Madsen, posted a rough draft of what we've implemented in product a
while back: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg08607.html

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 10:49 AM, Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> wrote:

> For introspection, we really just wanted to say "you can authenticate the
> caller (client or RP) just like you would to the token endpoint". So if
> you've got the means to do that with the assertion draft or with client
> secrets or TLS certs or anything else, go for it. I would not read the text
> of the assertions draft as restricting this other use case.
>
>  -- Justin
>
>
> On 04/23/2014 12:42 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
>
>> The assertions draft is only trying to describe how to perform
>> assertion-based authentication at the Token Endpoint.  Other drafts, such
>> as the introspection draft, could explicitly say that this can also be done
>> in the same manner there, but that's an extension, and should be specified
>> by the extension draft, if appropriate - not in the assertions draft.
>>
>> Justin may have more to say about the applicability or lack of it to the
>> introspection draft, but I'm personally not familiar with it.
>>
>>                                 -- Mike
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: OAuth [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Hannes
>> Tschofenig
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 5:09 AM
>> To: oauth@ietf.org
>> Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Assertions: Client authentication for non-token
>> endpoints?
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> in a discussion about re-using the client authentication part of the
>> assertion framework for other specifications currently in progress I ran
>> into the following question:
>>
>> Section 6.1 of
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-assertions-15 talks about
>> the client using the assertion with the **token endpoint**.
>>
>> Now, it appears that one cannot use the client authentication with other
>> endpoints, such as the introspection endpoint defined in
>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-introspection-04#section-2
>>
>> Am I reading too much into Section 6.1 of the assertion draft?
>>
>> Ciao
>> Hannes
>>
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