Re: [OAUTH-WG] Secure Client Token Storage

Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> Wed, 18 November 2009 09:08 UTC

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From: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
To: Joseph A Holsten <joseph@josephholsten.com>, "oauth@ietf.org" <oauth@ietf.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:07:41 -0700
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Would you like to propose text?

I think this is application specific. Isn't calling it a token *secret* enough? :-)

EHL


On 11/17/09 7:52 PM, "Joseph A Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com> wrote:

If browsers start having OAuth support, they're definitely going to
need a secure store for those OAuth tokens, so my malicious app
doesn't just dig through your Firefox config for access to tokens.

This doesn't seem to be mentioned in draft-hammer-oauth-05, §4.7 is
server specific, and §4.8 only recommends to hide the client
credentials. Should the spec add a section recommending clients store
access tokens in secure storage?
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Joseph Holsten
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