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Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth2/OIDC for client-server mobile app

Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com> Thu, 26 January 2017 15:13 UTC

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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:13:41 +0000
From: Dario Teixeira <dario.teixeira@nleyten.com>
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] OAuth2/OIDC for client-server mobile app
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Hi,

> +1 to AppAuth
> 
> One disturbing pattern I see for mobile apps relaying the idtoken is
> that the aud isn't checked by the AS in the Oauth exchange. This in
> part caused by the fact that the mobile app has two client-id
> identifiers. If the aud only has the clientid for the OIDC call this
> can be a problem if the AS doesn't know what that id is (since it
> didnt issue the id). If the issued id token does not have an aud value
> the AS can recognize it should be rejected.

Is the AppAuth pattern documented somewhere? There's a chance I may not
be able to use Google's libraries...

Best regards,
Dario Teixeira

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