Re: [OAUTH-WG] Client Instances of An Application - Was: Re: Last call review of draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-10

Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> Tue, 04 June 2013 17:46 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Client Instances of An Application - Was: Re: Last call review of draft-ietf-oauth-dyn-reg-10
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I agree with the goal of standardizing on identifying software 
instances, but I think it's out of scope to do so inside of dynamic 
registration when most dynamic registration use cases don't need it and 
won't use it. I think that you've got to define discovery, assertion 
contents, and a few other things in order to make it work and 
interoperable across different services. Do we really want to define 
assertion formats and server/client discovery and processing rules 
inside of dynamic registration? I really don't think that's beneficial, 
either to dynamic registration itself or to the problem that the 
software instance tracking is trying to solve.

If this gets proposed as a separate document, I will support it and I 
will help work on it. Heck, I'll even help edit the thing (or things) if 
people want. But I strongly believe that it's a separate concern from 
dynamic client registration, and I think it needs to have its own proper 
discussion apart from that.

  -- Justin

On 06/04/2013 02:28 AM, Phil Hunt wrote:
> Yes. However the contents and format are out of scope.
>
> Phil
>
> On 2013-06-03, at 22:32, Torsten Lodderstedt <torsten@lodderstedt.net 
> <mailto:torsten@lodderstedt.net>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Phil,
>>
>> isn't the initial registration token such a credential, which allows 
>> to co-relate different instances of the same software?
>>
>> regards,
>> Torsten.
>>
>>
>>
>> Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com <mailto:phil.hunt@oracle.com>> schrieb:
>>
>>     Finally i believe the bb+ doesn't have the issue because they are solving with an initial authn credential that contains the same info.
>>
>>     My feeling is that this functionality needs to be standardized one way or another.
>>
>>     Phil
>>
>>     On 2013-06-03, at 19:16, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com  <mailto:derek@ihtfp.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         Phil, Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com
>>         <mailto:phil.hunt@oracle.com>> writes:
>>
>>             Not quite. I will call you. I am saying we are
>>             transitioning from the old public client model. The new
>>             model proposes quasi-confidential characteristics but in
>>             some respects is missing key information from the public
>>             m! odel. Namely that a group of clients are related and
>>             there have common behaviour and security characteristics.
>>             We need to add to the self-asserted model an assertion
>>             equiv to the old common client_id. That is all. I am NOT
>>             looking for a proof of application identity here. That is
>>             too far. But certainly what we define here can open that
>>             door. Phil
>>
>>         I think I understand what you're saying here. In the "old
>>         way", a public client had a constant client_id amongst all
>>         instances of that public client, whereas in the "new way", a
>>         public client will have different client_ids amongst all
>>         instances of that client. You feel this is a loss, whereas it
>>         seems most people seem to feel this change is okay. Since you
>>         are effectively the lone dissenter on this one topic, let me
>>         ask you a question: What is a technical reason that you need
>>         to have a constant, assertion that would bind to! gether (in
>>         a non-authenticated way) multiple instances of a client? I
>>         believe that Justin has provides some attacks against this;
>>         so I'm trying to understand, (with my chair hat on), why you
>>         need this functionality? With my security-mafia hat on, I
>>         feel like the old way was bad, and I much prefer the newer
>>         way where each instance of a client gets its own ID and a
>>         locally-stored secret. -derek -- Derek Atkins 617-623-3745
>>         derek@ihtfp.com <mailto:derek@ihtfp.com> www.ihtfp.com
>>         <http://www.ihtfp.com> Computer and Internet Security Consultant 
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