Re: [GNAP] Key Rotation

That's a valid point (i.e. you might use whatever system you want, as long
as you make sure your keys are managed) although one could argue we should
at the very minimum provide practical methods to ensure sufficient
security. Which means we could still provide a way native to GNAP, in case
people don't have their preferred method already?

Le mer. 7 juil. 2021 à 16:14, Thomas Hardjono <hardjono@mit.edu> a écrit :

>
> As much as I like the direction of GNAP, is key-rotation (i.e. key
> management) even part of the GNAP charter?
>
> Key-rotation is a common problem for everyone, starting from the early
> days of IPsec/IKE.
>
> Best
>
> --thomas
>
>
> ________________________________________
> From: TXAuth [txauth-bounces@ietf.org] on behalf of Justin Richer [
> jricher@mit.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 7, 2021 9:57 AM
> To: Fabien Imbault
> Cc: GNAP Mailing List; Aaron Parecki
> Subject: Re: [GNAP] Key Rotation
>
> Aaron, that’s a great point about static registration. That leaves
> ephemeral or otherwise runtime keys, which might be good enough to just
> start a new request when needed?
>
> Ben had previously posited a functional approach like sign(k2, sign(k1,
> (k2))): you use the old key (k1) to sign the new key (k2), then use the new
> key to sign that signature and present it. The thing that I get hung up on
> is having a way to do the key proofing for a new key that works
> consistently for all the different key types in use. The outer signature,
> signing with the new key, is easy: that’s the GNAP key proofing mechanism.
> The trick is carrying a signed object with the key material internally
> somehow — is there a way to handle that consistently across different
> proofing types?
>
> There are a bunch of ways that it could be done with different proofing
> mechanisms and that might be the right approach. HTTP Message Signatures
> can attach multiple signatures. JWK-based-keys could use JWS to wrap the
> key content as part of the payload (so you’d get something like a nested
> JWT). MTLS is a strange one, but if you’re in certificate space you have
> other options like CA’s and OCSP to help manage your keys at a different
> level. So maybe GNAP just specifies the functional requirement at a high
> level and each proofing mechanism or deployment has to fill that somehow in
> its definition?
>
> Still, something in me says that we should be able to do this in one
> consistent pattern, and I’d love to hear more ideas on how that could be
> handled. If we can crack that, then it becomes a matter of applying that to
> a bunch of different requests: grant update, token rotation, initial
> request, etc. This piece, at least, I believe can be applied pretty
> generically.
>
>  — Justin
>
> On Jul 6, 2021, at 6:30 PM, Fabien Imbault <fabien.imbault@gmail.com
> <mailto:fabien.imbault@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> As far as I know, key rotation remains a cumbersome process in most cases,
> to say the least. It's quite impressive how often that breaks (usually when
> a certificate expires somewhere).
>
> The exception is caddy server, that does it really well. Works fine in
> production.
>
> And then, as a proof of concept, there's DIF Keri that embeds key rotation
> as a primary requirement.
>
> Fabien
>
>
>
>
> Le mar. 6 juil. 2021 à 23:29, Aaron Parecki <aaron@parecki.com<mailto:
> aaron@parecki.com>> a écrit :
> I do think it's important that a client instance should be able to rotate
> its keys, as this is a pretty common practice in other related specs.
>
> You mentioned pre-registered clients which I think is an interesting case.
> I would expect in those cases the client instance wouldn't actually be
> rotating its keys on its own, instead the developer/administrator would go
> into the management console to rotate the keys there, and deploy the new
> keys to the client instance, more like how typical OAuth clients work today.
>
> Coming up with the actual rotation method is definitely an interesting
> challenge, but there must be some prior art to draw from here. Wouldn't
> existing specs like Mutual TLS or even PGP have some mechanism that could
> be reused?
>
> Aaron
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2021 at 10:52 AM Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu<mailto:
> jricher@mit.edu>> wrote:
> In the GNAP protocol, most requests are bound to a key. There are pretty
> solid mechanisms for establishing those keys as part of the request, both
> dynamically and as part of some pre-registration step.
>
> However, over time those keys could be rotated out by the parties that
> control them, and GNAP needs to be able to handle this.
>
>         • Access tokens are bound to keys
>                 • We allow rotation of the token value at client instance
> request...
>                 • Should we allow rotation of the key also?
>         • Grant transactions are also bound to keys
>                 • Specifically: the continuation access token is bound to
> a key
>                 • The key is initially the client instance’s key
>                 • Should the client be able to rotate this key separately?
>         • Some client instances have registered keys
>                 • What happens when a client’s registered key rotates?
>
>
> Secure rotation of a key would require some way for the presenter to prove
> possession of both the old and new keys simultaneously. It could be a
> matter of signing the request with the new key and include some artifact
> signed by the old key in the request, or the inverse of that. There are
> likely other methods out there, but this seems simplest.
>
> What situations are people looking at for handling key rotation?
>
>  — Justin
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