Re: [OAUTH-WG] New Version Notification for draft-fett-oauth-dpop-03.txt

[Rob Otto <[e-mail]>]

Hi everyone

I'd agree with this. I'm looking at DPOP as an alternative and
ultimately simpler way to accomplish what we can already do with MTLS-bound
Access Tokens, for use cases such as the ones we address in Open Banking;
these are API transactions that demand a high level of assurance and as
such we absolutely must have a mechanism to constrain those tokens to the
intended bearer. Requiring MTLS across the ecosystem, however, adds
significant overhead in terms of infrastructural complexity and is always
going to limit the extent to which such a model can scale.

DPOP, to me, appears to be a rather more elegant way of solving the same
problem, with the benefit of significantly reducing the complexity of (and
dependency on) the transport layer. I would not argue, however, that it is
meant to be a solution intended for ubiquitous adoption across all
OAuth-protected API traffic. Clients still need to manage private keys
under this model and my experience is that there is typically a steep
learning curve for developers to negotiate any time you introduce a
requirement to hold and use keys within  an application.

I guess I'm with Justin - let's look at DPOP as an alternative to
MTLS-bound tokens for high-assurance use cases, at least initially, without
trying to make it solve every problem.

Best regards
Rob


On Fri, 22 Nov 2019 at 07:24, Justin Richer <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I’m going to +1 Dick and Annabelle’s question about the scope here. That
> was the one major thing that struck me during the DPoP discussions in
> Singapore yesterday: we don’t seem to agree on what DPoP is for. Some
> (including the authors, it seems) see it as a quick point-solution to a
> specific use case. Others see it as a general PoP mechanism.
>
> If it’s the former, then it should be explicitly tied to one specific set
> of things. If it’s the latter, then it needs to be expanded.
>
> I’ll repeat what I said at the mic line: My take is that we should
> explicitly narrow down DPoP so that it does exactly one thing and solves
> one narrow use case. And for a general solution? Let’s move that discussion
> into the next major revision of the protocol where we’ll have a bit more
> running room to figure things out.
>
>  — Justin
>
> On Nov 22, 2019, at 3:13 PM, Dick Hardt <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 3:08 PM Neil Madden <[e-mail]>
> wrote:
>
>> On 22 Nov 2019, at 01:42, Richard Backman, Annabelle <[e-mail]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> There are key distribution challenges with that if you are doing
>> validation at the RS, but validation at the RS using either approach means
>> you’ve lost protection against replay by the RS. This brings us back to a
>> core question: what threats are in scope for DPoP, and in what contexts?
>>
>>
>> Agreed, but validation at the RS is premature optimisation in many cases.
>> And if you do need protection against that the client can even append a
>> confirmation key as a caveat and retrospectively upgrade a bearer token to
>> a pop token. They can even do transfer of ownership by creating copies of
>> the original token bound to other certificates/public keys.
>>
>
> While validation at the RS may be an optimization in many cases, it is
> still a requirement for deployments.
>
> I echo Annabelle's last question: what threats are in scope (and out of
> scope) for DPoP?
>
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