Re: [GNAP] Support of FIDO

Denis <denis.ietf@free.fr> Fri, 14 August 2020 13:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [GNAP] Support of FIDO
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Mike,

Please open a new thread if you want to discuss this topic as it is 
unrelated to FIDO.

Denis

> I think allowing a trusted Client to authN the end user and have the 
> AS trust that authentication is an important feature, especially for 
> mobile client or in the example of FIDO/WebAuthN.
>
> I have captured the use case here:
>
> https://github.com/ietf-wg-gnap/general/wiki/Client-can-AuthN-End-User
>
> MV
>
> *From: *TXAuth <txauth-bounces@ietf.org> on behalf of Denis 
> <denis.ietf@free.fr>
> *Date: *Friday, August 14, 2020 at 6:05 AM
> *To: *Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com>
> *Cc: *"txauth@ietf.org" <txauth@ietf.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [GNAP] Support of FIDO
>
> Hi Dick,
>
>     OAuth 2.0 goal was not to get rid of usernames and passwords. It
>     was to stop site A from asking for the user's username and
>     password at site B so that site A could access resources at site B.
>
>     How the AS authenticates the User is out of scope, and I
>     think should be out of scope.
>
> Maybe, may be not. Some means of authentication between a User and an 
> AS could be recommended and documented.
>
> However, how the RS authenticates the User should be within the scope.
>
>     There are a plethora of authentication mechanisms, and
>     standardizing how the user authenticates is not required for interop.
>     Sharing the "quality" of the authentication is an area of
>     standardization that has been done in OpenID Connect, and I think
>     should be included in GNAP.
>
>     Having said that, the Client could optionally use FIDO to
>     authenticate the User and somehow transmit that to the AS.
>
> No. The RS Client could optionally use FIDO to authenticate the User. 
> Since FIDO does not mandate any AS, there is no interaction with any 
> AS at that stage.
>
> Denis
>
>     Image removed by sender.ᐧ
>
>     On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 10:31 AM Denis <denis.ietf@free.fr
>     <mailto:denis.ietf@free.fr>> wrote:
>
>         This topic has already been tackled on the list, but I open a
>         new thread for it.
>
>         In OAuth 2.0, one of the goals was to get rid of IDs and
>         passwords. Since the solution in OAuth 2.0 was to use access
>         tokens,
>         there have been used everywhere, even when they were not
>         strictly needed.
>
>         It is also possible to get rid of IDs and passwords using
>         FIDO. FIDO discloses no private information at all about the user
>         and no trust relationships need to be defined since there is
>         no AS.
>
>         FIDO should be one allowed possibility for the user
>         authentication. In the case of FIDO, the user is authenticated
>         under a pseudonym
>         specific to the RS. It may observed that there is no
>         equivalent in OAuth because of the two different semantics of
>         the subject claim.
>
>         RFC 7519 states:
>
>             The "sub" (subject) claim identifies the principal that is
>             the subject of the JWT.  The claims in a JWT are normally
>             statements about the subject.
>             The subject value MUST either be scoped to be locally
>             unique in the context of the issuer or be globally unique.
>
>         In one case, it is possible to link the subject claim of two
>         users between two RSs (i.e. using a locally unique identifier
>         in the context of the issuer)
>         while in the other case (i.e. using a globally unique
>         identifier) it is possible, in addition, to link the subject
>         claim between one RS and any other server
>         (i.e. not supporting OAuth) that is using the same globally
>         unique identifier.
>
>         None of these two semantics fit with the FIDO use case where
>         the subject value is scoped to be locally unique in the
>         context of one RS.
>         Hence, the linkage of users between two RSs (or between one RS
>         and any other server) becomes impossible.
>
>         There are cases where a user would like to enjoy the
>         unlinkeability properties of FIDO which cannot be met using
>         the claims currently defined in OAuth.
>
>         Denis
>
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