Re: [OAUTH-WG] Device Authorization Grant Interval

Aaron Parecki <aaron@parecki.com> Mon, 03 June 2019 17:04 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Device Authorization Grant Interval
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Is there something wrong with using the existing error code defined for
this?

>    slow_down
>      A variant of "authorization_pending", the authorization request is
>      still pending and polling should continue, but the interval MUST
>      be increased by 5 seconds for this and all subsequent requests.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-device-flow-15#section-3.5

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On Mon, Jun 3, 2019 at 9:55 AM Janak Amarasena <janakama360@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Joseph,
>
> Thank you for the information, this what I was also thinking. It would be
> nice if this can be defined in the specification itself, maybe as a
> recommendation as there can be wrongly written client applications or even
> if some party is trying to do a brute force attack.
>
> Best Regards,
> Janak
>
> On Sun, Jun 2, 2019 at 1:40 PM Joseph Heenan <joseph@authlete.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Janak,
>>
>> Interestingly this came up when discussing the CIBA specification (which
>> builds upon device authorization grant to some extent) recently:
>> https://bitbucket.org/openid/mobile/issues/135/token-endpoint-response-when-client-polls
>>
>> The thought that group came up with is that returning ‘invalid_request’
>> would be appropriate - ideally appropriate error_description to make it
>> easy to understand what’s going on.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Joseph
>>
>>
>> > On 21 May 2019, at 06:21, Janak Amarasena <janakama360@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > In the OAuth2 Device Authorization Grant, what would be an appropriate
>> response if the client does not respect the set polling interval and keeps
>> on polling with a lower interval?
>> >
>> > Thank you,
>> > Best Regards,
>> >
>> > Janak Amarasena
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