Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use case

[John Bradley <[e-mail]>]

Mike,

I have pointed this out several times.  I understand that you disagree. 

The WS-Trust spec is not as clear as it could be.  I included the MSDN note explaining how WIF interprets it.
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748487.aspx


Given that there seems to be differing opinions on the semantics beyond just me, can we agree that the terms are not as clear as one would hope?

I may be wrong, but I suspect that I am not the only one.  

We can discuss it at the F2F.


John B.
> On Jul 6, 2015, at 1:33 PM, Mike Jones <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> It would surprise me if on-behalf-of and act-as were reversed with respect WS-Trust, because the explanations of the terms came directly from WS-Trust 1.4.  I also think the chances of us reducing confusion by inventing new terminology, rather than adding to it, would not be in our favor. :-/
> 
> FYI, the action items outstanding from our ad-hoc meeting on this draft in Dallas are:
>  - Allowing security types other than JWT to also be used as the act_as and on_behalf_of request values.
>  - Further integrating the mechanism into the existing OAuth ecosystem - allowing use of access tokens or refresh tokens when appropriate.
> 
> I plan to do the first today.  The second is probably more than I'll get done today before the submission cutoff.  I agree with John that it would be useful to have discussions on this in Prague on the best way to achieve this further integration.  I'll plan to come into the Prague meeting with a concrete proposal for review.
> 
> 				Best wishes,
> 				-- Mike
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: OAuth [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of John Bradley
> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 8:13 AM
> To: Brian Campbell
> Cc: oauth
> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use case
> 
> Yes unfortunately we haven’t made any progress on this since accepting Mike’s first draft.
> 
> His proposal is basically for a new endpoint while Brian tired to fit it into the existing token endpoint.
> 
> I think draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 still has OnBehalfOf and ActAs reversed compared to WS-Trust 1.4.
> see https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748487.aspx for the short explanation.
> 
> I think Brian is closer in explaining it.
> 
> In fairness because WS-Trust originally only had On-Behalf-Of the naming and what people put in tokens is a bit muddled in many implementations.
> I think many times it is how WIF implemented it that people copied.
> 
> It may be better to have new terms that are clear such as impersonation and composite.
> 
> The WG needs to decide if this is going to be an entirely new endpoint, free of the Token endpoint semantics.   There are plusses and minuses to both options.
> 
> Also while it is nice to be pure and talk about abstract security tokens, it would be good to give some guidance on what a composite security token would look like for interoperability.
> 
> There are also issues around how this would work with proof of possession security tokens, both as input and output.
> 
> Perhaps we can make some progress on this in Prague.
> 
> John B.
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> On Jul 6, 2015, at 11:04 AM, Brian Campbell <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks Sergey,
>> 
>> The goal of draft-campbell-oauth-sts was to be consistent with OAuth 2.0 and thus hopefully familiar to developers and easy to understand and implement (especially from the client side). It's also intended to be flexible in order to accommodate a variety of use-cases including the chaining type cases that Justin's draft covers. 
>> 
>> Specifying a security_token_type of the returned token is just a way of providing more info to the client about the token (i.e. is this a JWT or a SAML token or something else) via a URI. It's not always needed but in STS style cases the tokens are not always opaque to the client and the parameter just provides info about the returned token.  
>> 
>> On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 5:33 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> Hi Brian
>> 
>> I've read the text, I like it is still pure OAuth2, with few extra parameters added to the access token request, and a key response property being 'access_token' as opposed to 'security_access_token' as in the draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01.
>> It appears draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01 can cover a draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 case with the on_behalf_of (and/or act_as ?) property being an original client token but not 100% sure given draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 covers a specific case.
>> 
>> One thing I'm not sure about is what is the purpose of specifying a 
>> security_token_type of the returned access token
>> 
>> Thanks, Sergey
>> 
>> On 01/07/15 15:59, Brian Campbell wrote:
>> One problem, I think, with token exchange is that it can be really 
>> simple (token in and token out) and really complicated (client X wants 
>> a token that says user A is doing something on behalf of user B) at 
>> the same time.
>> 
>> I put forth https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-campbell-oauth-sts-01 in 
>> an attempt to simplify things and express what I envisioned as an 
>> OAuth based token exchange framework. Though it likely only muddied 
>> the waters :)
>> 
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 7:07 AM, Sergey Beryozkin <[e-mail] 
>> <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Hi Justin
>> 
>>    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 is much
>>    easier to read, that I can tell for sure, at least it is obvious why
>>    a given entity (RS1) may want to exchange the current token provided
>>    by a client for a new token. Definitely easily implementable...
>> 
>>    One thing I'm not sure in the draft-richer-oauth-chain-00 about is
>>    on behalf of whose entity RS1 will be acting once it starts
>>    accessing RS2, On Behalf Of RO, or may be On Behalf Of (RO +
>>    Client), or may be it is On Behalf Of RO + Act As Client ? The last
>>    one seems most logical to me...
>> 
>>    Thanks, Sergey
>> 
>> 
>>    On 01/07/15 13:18, Justin Richer wrote:
>> 
>>        As it's written right now, it's a translation of some WS-*
>>        concepts into
>>        JWT format. It's not really OAuth-y (since the client has to
>>        understand
>>        the token format along with everyone else, and according to the
>>        authors
>>        the artifacts might not even be "OAuth tokens"), and that's my main
>>        issue with the document. Years ago, I proposed an OAuth-based
>>        token swap
>>        mechanism:
>> 
>>        https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-richer-oauth-chain-00
>> 
>>        This works without defining semantics of the tokens themselves, just
>>        like the rest of OAuth. I've proposed to the authors of the current
>>        draft that it should incorporate both semantic (using JWT) and
>>        syntactic
>>        (using a simple token-agnostic grant) token swap mechanisms, and
>>        that
>>        the two could be easily compatible.
>> 
>>           -- Justin
>> 
>>        On 7/1/2015 6:35 AM, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>> 
>>            Hmm... perhaps the clue is in the draft title,
>>            token-exchange, so may
>>            be it is a case of the given access token ("on_behalf_of" or
>>            "act_as"
>>            claim) being used to request a new security token. One can
>>            only guess
>>            though, does not seem like the authors are keen to answer
>>            the newbie
>>            questions...
>> 
>>            Cheers, Sergey
>> 
>> 
>>            On 30/06/15 13:38, Sergey Beryozkin wrote:
>> 
>>                Hi,
>>                Can you please explain what is the difference between
>>                On-Behalf-Of
>>                semantics described in the
>>                draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 and the
>>                implicit On-Behalf-Of semantics a client OAuth2 token
>>                possesses ?
>> 
>>                For example, draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01 mentions:
>> 
>>                "Whereas, with on-behalf-of semantics, principal A still
>>                has its own
>>                identity separate from B and it is explicitly understood
>>                that while B
>>                may have delegated its rights to A, any actions taken
>>                are being taken by
>>                A and not B. In a sense, A is an agent for B."
>> 
>>                This is a typical case with the authorization code flow
>>                where a client
>>                application acts on-behalf-of the user who authorized
>>                this application ?
>> 
>>                Sorry if I'm missing something
>> 
>>                Cheers, Sergey
>>                On 25/06/15 22:28, Mike Jones wrote:
>> 
>>                    That’s what
>>                    https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-token-exchange-01
>>                    is
>>                    about.
>> 
>>                    Cheers,
>> 
>>                    -- Mike
>> 
>>                    *From:*OAuth [mailto:[e-mail]
>>                    <mailto:[e-mail]>] *On Behalf Of *Vivek
>>                    Biswas
>>                    -T (vibiswas - XORIANT CORPORATION at Cisco)
>>                    *Sent:* Thursday, June 25, 2015 2:20 PM
>>                    *To:* [e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>
>>                    *Subject:* [OAUTH-WG] JWT Token on-behalf of Use 
>> case
>> 
>>                    Hi All,
>> 
>>                        I am looking to solve a use-case similar to
>>                    WS-Security On-Behalf-Of
>> 
>> <http://docs.oasis-open.org/ws-sx/ws-trust/v1.4/errata01/os/ws-trust-1
>> .4-errata01-os-complete.html#_Toc325658980>
>> 
>> 
>>                    with OAuth JWT Token.
>> 
>>                        Is there a standard claim which we can define
>>                    within the OAuth JWT
>>                    which denote the On-behalf-of User.
>> 
>>                    For e.g., a Customer Representative trying to create
>>                    token on behalf of
>>                    a customer and trying to execute services specific
>>                    for that specific
>>                    customer.
>> 
>>                    Regards,
>> 
>>                    Vivek Biswas,
>>                    CISSP
>> 
>>                    *Cisco Systems, Inc <http://www.cisco.com/>*
>> 
>>                    *Bldg. J, San Jose, USA,*
>> 
>>                    *Phone: [phone] 
>> <tel:%2B1%20408%20527%209176>*
>> 
>> 
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