Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Response for OAuth Token Introspection and types of tokens

Warren Parad <wparad@rhosys.ch> Sun, 07 February 2021 23:56 UTC

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From: Warren Parad <wparad@rhosys.ch>
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2021 00:56:20 +0100
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Response for OAuth Token Introspection and types of tokens
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>
> I‘m therefore leaning towards explicitly stating in our draft that it is
> not intended to be used with refresh tokens.

I'm not following, why explicitly state that it isn't intended. If an AS
wants to provide a similar JSON response to a query with the refresh token,
why not encourage that?

Warren Parad

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On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 10:58 PM Torsten Lodderstedt <torsten=
40lodderstedt.net@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:

> Hi Andrii,
>
> Am 07.02.2021 um 21:30 schrieb Andrii Deinega <andrii.deinega@gmail.com>:
>
> 
> Hi Torsten,
>
> thank you for your response.
>
> My use case is pretty straight forward
>
> An OAuth client queries the AS to determine the active state of an access
> token and gets the introspection response which indicates that this access
> token is active (using RFC7662).
>
> An OAuth client queries the AS to determine the active state of a refresh
> token and gets the introspection response which indicates that this refresh
> token is active (using RFC7662).
>
> An OAuth client queries the AS to determine the active state of an access
> token and gets the introspection response (JWT) which indicates that this
> access token is active (using this draft).
>
> Now, an OAuth client queries the AS to determine the active state of a
> refresh token (using this draft)... How will the introspection response
> look like assuming that the client provides the valid refresh token and
> technically, nothing stops it from doing so.
>
>
> why should the state be provided as JWT?I think the plain JSON response is
> sufficient in that case.  I also think using token introspection for
> checking the state of a token from the client side has limited utility. The
> definitive decision is always made when the client tries to access a
> resource.
>
> I‘m therefore leaning towards explicitly stating in our draft that it is
> not intended to be used with refresh tokens.
>
> best regards,
> Torsten.
>
>
> Regards,
> Andrii
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2021 at 4:14 AM Torsten Lodderstedt <
> torsten@lodderstedt.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrii,
>>
>> thanks for your post.
>>
>> The draft is intended to provide AS and RS with a solution to exchange
>> signed (and optionally encrypted) token introspection responses in order to
>> provide stronger assurance among those parties. This is important in use
>> cases where the RS acts upon the introspection response data and wants the
>> AS to take liability re the data quality.
>>
>> I’m not sure whether there are similar use cases if a client introspects
>> a refresh token. What is your use case?
>>
>> best regards,
>> Torsten.
>>
>> > Am 07.02.2021 um 08:41 schrieb Andrii Deinega <andrii.deinega@gmail.com
>> >:
>> >
>> > Hi WG,
>> >
>> > draft-ietf-oauth-jwt-introspection-response-10 states that "OAuth 2.0
>> Token Introspection [RFC7662] specifies a method for a protected resource
>> to query an OAuth 2.0 authorization server to determine the state of an
>> access token and obtain data associated with the access token." which is
>> true. Although, according to RFC7662, the introspection endpoint allows to
>> introspect a refresh token as well. Hence, the question I have is how will
>> a token introspection response look like when the caller provides a refresh
>> token and sets the "Accept" HTTP header to
>> "application/token-introspection+jwt"?
>> >
>> > I expect there will be no differences, right?
>> >
>> > If so, I suggest to
>> >       • replace "a resource server" by "the caller" in section 4
>> (Requesting a JWT Response)
>> >       • change "If the access token is invalid, expired, revoked" by
>> "If a given token is invalid, expired, revoked" in section 5 (JWT Response)
>> > If not, my suggestion would be to clarify what the AS should do when it
>> asked to introspect the refresh token in general and additionally, what
>> should happen in the same case based on the type of the caller from the
>> AS's point of view.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Andrii
>> >
>>
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