Re: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Adoption

[Nat Sakimura <[e-mail]>]

Hi Mike.

Conversely, I would like to ask why this approach does not work for Mix-up
attack. As Nov stated, we in fact have discussed the approach in quite a
length back in Yokohama. I really would like to know why it does not work.

Besides, for oauth-meta approach, mix-up attack is only one of the thing it
solves.

Nat Sakimura

2016年1月21日(木) 16:02 Mike Jones <[e-mail]>:

> Not to be negative, but I disagree with adopting
> draft-sakimura-oauth-meta.  We should define and promote one mitigation
> approach to the mix-up attacks.  Having two would confuse implementers and
> cause compatibility problems – reducing overall security.
>
>
>
> The approach defined in draft-jones-oauth-mix-up-mitigation was created in
> collaboration with the security researchers who identified the problems in
> the first place, was vigorously discussed in the security meeting Hannes
> and Torsten held in Darmstadt, and has been since refined based on
> substantial input from the working group.  And at least three implementers
> have already stated that they’ve implemented it.  I’m not saying that it’s,
> but if there are things missing or things that need to be improved in our
> approach, we should do it there, rather introducing a competing approach.
>
>
>
> Also, standard OAuth deployments register the client and then use the
> information gathered at registration time for subsequent protocol
> interactions.  They do not need all the configuration information for the
> authorization server to be retransmitted at runtime.  The oauth-meta draft
> goes too far in that direction, at least as I see it.  Returning things two
> ways creates its own problems, as discussed in the Duplicate Information
> Attacks security considerations section (7.2) of the mix-up-mitigation
> draft.
>
>
>
> I’ll note that the mix-up-mitigation approach is compatible with existing
> practice in both static and dynamic metadata discovery.  Replying to
> Justin’s comment that “It's the pre-configured discovery document that's
> at the root of the mix-up attack in the first place” – this is not the
> case.  The attacks can be performed without either discovery or dynamic
> registration.
>
>
>
> I would be interested in hearing a technical discussion on whether there
> are aspects of the oauth-meta approach that mitigate aspects of the attacks
> that the mix-up-mitigation approach does not.  That could help inform
> whether there are additional things we should add to or change in the
> mix-up draft.
>
>
>
>                                                           -- Mike
>
>
>
> *From:* OAuth [mailto:[e-mail]] *On Behalf Of *William
> Denniss
> *Sent:* Wednesday, January 20, 2016 10:37 PM
> *To:* Justin Richer <[e-mail]>
> *Cc:* [e-mail]
> *Subject:* Re: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Adoption
>
>
>
> +1 to adopt this, and I agree with Justin's comments.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Justin Richer <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> +1
>
> Inline discovery and pre-configured discovery (ie, .well-known) should at
> the very least be compatible and developed together. It's the
> pre-configured discovery document that's at the root of the mix-up attack
> in the first place.
>
>  -- Justin
>
>
>
> On 1/19/2016 10:30 PM, Nat Sakimura wrote:
>
> Just to give more context, at IETF 94, I have done a presentation on
> discovery.
>
>
>
> According to the minutes,
>
>
>
>     (f) Discovery (Nat)
>
>
>
>              Nat explains his document as an example of the work that has to be done
>
>              in the area of discovery, which is a topic that has been identified
>
>              as necessary for interoperability since many years but so far there
>
>              was not time to work on it. Mike, John and Nat are working on a new
>
>              document that describes additional discovery-relevant components.
>
>
>
>              Poll: 19 for / zero against / 4 persons need more information.
>
>
>
> The document discussed there was
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-05. This is a
> simple (only 1-page!) but a very powerful document that nudges towards
> HATEOAS which is at the core of RESTful-ness. It also mitigates the Mix-up
> attack without introducing the concept of issuer which is not in RFC6749.
> It is also good for selecting different endpoints depending on the user
> authentication and authorization results and more privacy sensitive than
> pre-announced Discovery document. It also allows you to find to which
> protected resource endpoint you can use the access token against.
>
>
>
> In the last sentence of the minutes, it talks about "a new document that
> describes additional discovery-relevant components". This is
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-oauth-discovery-00.  It went for
> the call for adoption. However, it is only a half of the story. I believe
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-05 that was
> discussed at IETF 94 and had support there should be adopted as well.
>
>
>
> Nat Sakimura
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> 2016年1月20日(水) 12:05 Nat Sakimura <[e-mail]>:
>
> Thanks Hannes.
>
>
>
> I did not find https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sakimura-oauth-meta-05, which
> was discussed in Yokohama, and was largely in agreement if my recollection
> is correct. Why is it not in the call for adoption?
>
>
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> 2016年1月19日(火) 20:39 Hannes Tschofenig <[e-mail]>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> we have submitted our new charter to the IESG (see
> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg15379.html) and
> since some IESG members like to see an updated list of milestones as
> well. For this reason, based on a suggestion from Barry, we are also
> starting a call for adoption concurrently with the review of the charter
> text by the IESG.
>
> We will post separate mails on the individual documents. Your feedback
> is important! Please take the time to look at the documents and provide
> your feedback.
>
> Ciao
> Hannes & Derek
>
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