openid plugin and attributes

Paul Hethmon paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com
Tue May 3 16:52:40 EDT 2016


> On May 3, 2016, at 4:00 PM, Paul Hethmon <paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com> wrote:
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>> 2) OIDC requires direct, non-browser, communication between RP and IP.  A lot of Shib IdPs run without activating attribute query and such as it allows for easier clustering.  Does your plug-in use shib's state sharing mechanism?  If so, can it be activated only for OIDC accesses?
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> I’m piggy backing on my v2 db storage service. I have extended it to have direct support for storing OIDC sessions. With the direct back channel model of OIDC, I just didn’t see a way to support it without clustering the sessions.

Another thing this led to is NOT supporting dynamic registration. Supporting that would require a mechanism to create and persist the RP information across all servers in a farm.

So you will have to create and register your client IDs out of band.

Paul

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Paul Hethmon
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