[security-dev] Entitlement versus Enforcement Model

[Bill Burke]

On 11/7/2012 4:34 PM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> On 11/07/2012 03:26 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>
>> On 11/7/2012 4:09 PM, Anil Saldhana wrote:
>>> On 11/07/2012 03:05 PM, Bill Burke wrote:
>>>> I committed some preliminary work a few months ago to prototype
>>>> Openstack's Keystone service and protocol.  I want to ditch this work
>>>> though in favor of developing my own protocol as it seems Keystone is
>>>> very much in flux and they aren't sure of their own direction.  It as a
>>>> good exercise though as I learned how AS7 and login-modules can fit
>>>> together and how you can dynamically set roles/identity *per-request*.
>>>> I also wrote a little utility that allows you to delegate authentication
>>>> to your security domain. (login-module-authenticator)
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/tree/master/jaxrs/security/skeleton-key-idm
>>>>
>>>> I just started on my new (well really long time brewing) ideas this week
>>>> as Resteasy 3.0 beta 1 is now out.  I plan on using JSON Web Token and
>>>> JSON Web Signatures.  After evaluating these specs, they look very tight
>>>> and simple enough to build upon.
>>> Bill, last time I mentioned JWT and JWE, you chewed me. Yeah, pretty
>>> lightweight stuff and applicable to REST style services.
>>> It is possible that JWT lacks the richness that may be desired in a
>>> token, for certain usecases. I have not come across those use cases yet
>>> apart from serving SAML users over a REST style interface with JSON binding.
>>>
>> Yup, I was wrong about JWS and JWE.  When I chewed you, i was thinking
>> more about HTTP message bodies, and not thinking about URLs and header
>> strings.  Keystone uses application/pks7-signature, which is a
>> possibility too, but I don't know how viable it is within javascript.
>> JWS/JWE already has code here.
>>
>> Bill
>>
> Bill, dont write any JWS/JWE implementation because this Duetsche
> Telecom researcher has done implementation of the latest drafts of these
> specs. https://code.google.com/p/jsoncrypto/
> The challenge I have with this project is that the code is not indented
> properly and not readable. Build is not mavenized. It is BSD licensed. I
> was supposed to help him with the project code organization, maven etc.
>
> I only implemented the bare minimum JWE/JWS algorithms we require with
> the intent of integrating jsoncrypto.
> https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/SECURITY/JSON+Security
>

There's this too:

https://bitbucket.org/nimbusds/nimbus-jose-jwt/wiki/Home



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