Re: [OAUTH-WG] Shepherd review of draft-ietf-oauth-v2-threatmodel

Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com> Tue, 24 April 2012 14:58 UTC

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From: Phil Hunt <phil.hunt@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:58:53 -0700
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Shepherd review of draft-ietf-oauth-v2-threatmodel
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Are we at this stage re-opening the entire document? I thought we were responding only to specific shepherd text edits. 

Phil

On 2012-04-24, at 6:24, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

> On 04/24/2012 01:17 AM, Mark Mcgloin wrote:
>> Hi Thomas
>> 
>> Your additional text is already covered in a countermeasure for section
>> 4.1.4.  In addition, section 4.1.4.4 states the assumption that the auth
>> server can't protect against a user installing a malicious client
>> 
> 
> The more I read this draft, the more borked I think its base assumptions
> are. The client *is* one of the main threats. Full stop. A threat document
> should not be asking the adversary to play nice. Yet, 4.1.4 bullets 1 and
> 3 are doing exactly that again. If those are countermeasures, then so is
> visualizing world peace.
> 
> As for bullet two, it doesn't mention revocation, and I prefer Barry's
> section generally. I can't find a section 4.1.4.4
> 
> Mike
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