[OAUTH-WG] JWT profile and IdentityServer

Dominick Baier <dbaier@leastprivilege.com> Mon, 04 May 2020 07:36 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] JWT profile and IdentityServer
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Hey,

Just some notes on applying the JWT profile to IdentityServer

* we emit the at+jwt typ - that’s very useful
* we emit iat in addition to nbf (if we would remove nbf, we would break
the .NET JWT library from Microsoft - I guess that’s the reason AAD emits
it as well)
* we have an option to emit scope as a space delimited string (we used a
string array for historic reasons - also because that’s how the claims
plumbing in .NET prefers it)

* aud

Audience is optional in IdentityServer if you request scopes that do not
have an association to a resource. I personally think this is the right way
to go. You can “force” an audience even for this situation if you
absolutely want to

* sub vs client_id

In IdentityServer access tokens that do not have a user present, do not
have a sub claim - only client_id. If there is a user present, sub ALWAYS
represents the user.

I was prototyping a setting to emit the sub claim for situation where there
is no user, which would not be hard to do - but we found out that there are
many situations where this would need VERY THOROUGH testing of all the
various flows to not introduce subtle security bugs

* the user info endpoint needs to do extra checking
* extension grants that did not use to present users
* token exchange scenarios
* enforce a collision domain for sub and client_id

This could all be sorted probably if I would have enough time right now -
but the bottom line is, that this ambiguity and special casing requires
careful re-writing and I guess this applies to any reasonably complex
system that is already out there. So I am still not sold that the “dual
purpose” claims are the best choice. YMMV.

IOW - we will not adopt the sub/client_id semantics as proposed by the
document.


My 2c / cheers
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Dominick Baier