openid plugin and attributes

Brent Putman putmanb at georgetown.edu
Tue May 3 17:32:44 EDT 2016


July 31.

http://shibboleth.net/pipermail/announce/2015-May/000112.html


On 5/3/16 5:18 PM, Jim Fox wrote:
>
> v2?  isn't v2's end-of-life right about now?
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Paul Hethmon wrote:
>
>> Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 13:00:27
>> From: Paul Hethmon <paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com>
>> To: Shibboleth Dev <dev at shibboleth.net>
>> Reply-To: Shib Dev <dev at shibboleth.net>
>> Subject: Re: openid plugin and attributes
>>
>>
>>> On May 3, 2016, at 2:04 PM, Jim Fox <fox at washington.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>> 1) OIDC requires some extra data about client RPs, e.g. client ID
>>> (usually a uuid of some sort).  Would these fit into SAML metadata?
>>
>> I couldn’t find a good way to fit the OIDC “metadata” (very loose
>> term there) into SAML metadata. So there are some additions to the
>> core Shib configuration files (internal.xml, handler.xml) to
>> bootstrap the OIDC components. At that point, the OIDC configuration
>> manager reads some JSON formatted files for core configuration data
>> and for RP information. However, the client ID and client
>> secret/password I modeled as a simple BASIC authentication method.
>> For my IdP’s, I run a BASIC auth filter for ECP purposes and simply
>> used it to protect that endpoint. So whatever method you use to
>> protect it will work.
>>
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Paul
>>
>> -----
>> Paul Hethmon
>> Chief Software Architect
>> paul.hethmon at clareitysecurity.com
>>
>>
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