Re: [Txauth] Use Case: Directed Tokens

[Dick Hardt <[e-mail]>]

Apologies for the delayed response:

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 9:04 AM Denis <[e-mail]> wrote:

> The principle where a RS would only have relationships with one AS would
> make the model non scalable.
> It would prevent to get attributes from two different ASs,  for example:
> identity attributes from a bank and a master degree diploma from a
> university.
>

Where do you see that the RS can have a relationship with only one AS?


>
> For privacy reasons, every AS should know as little as possible about the
> interactions between a client and multiple RSs.
> It is even possible that this goes as little as knowing *nothing at all*.
>

OAuth 2.0 works this way now.


>
> The OAuth 2.0 assumption where the AS is in a position to know all the
> interactions of a given user has with all the RSs
> that an AS server has a relationship with should not be re-iterated.
>

I am still confused why you think the AS knows anything abou the
interactions a given use has with all the RSs. The AS knows which clients
the user is using, but does not need to have any knowledge of which RSs a
client is accessing.


The AS does not need to know anything about the RS. The RS clearly needs to
trust the AS, as it is trusting the access granted by the AS to the client,
but it is unidirectional trust between the RS and the AS.

/Dick