[security-dev] PicketLink SCIM Module

[Shane Bryzak]

I've spent some time today reviewing the RESTEasy reference docs [1] and 
source code [2].  Its primary security focus seems to be on OAuth and 
request-signing, which I'm happy to steer clear of for the time being 
and instead concentrate on building a JavaScript-based BASIC and DIGEST 
authentication client.  I think we still need to start a separate 
discussion in conjunction with Bill for the OAuth topic and where 
PicketLink fits into this, perhaps next week sometime we could even have 
a call or hangout to work out our next steps.

Back on topic for PicketLink though, would it be ok Anil if we went 
ahead and renamed the SCIM module to REST, and began prototyping the 
JavaScript client and extended REST services there?

[1] 
http://docs.jboss.org/resteasy/docs/3.0-beta-5/userguide/html_single/index.html#oauth2
[2] https://github.com/resteasy/Resteasy/tree/master/jaxrs/security

On 21/05/13 23:27, Anil Saldhana wrote:
> Rest module can have scim as well as oauth base. We need to ensure that we do not conflict with RESTEasy as it has many security features.
>
> On May 21, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Pedro Igor Silva <psilva at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> +1.
>>
>> But regarding the two set of RESTful services, maybe we can have only a SCIM set where the PicketLink additional features can be handled as extensions to the base schema.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Shane Bryzak" <sbryzak at redhat.com>
>> To: "security-dev >> \"security-dev at lists.jboss.org\"" <security-dev at lists.jboss.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 5:22:06 AM
>> Subject: [security-dev] PicketLink SCIM Module
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>> I've been reviewing the capabilities of the SCIM module (which are defined by the SCIM specification [1]) and someone correct me if I'm wrong, but it only seems to provide a subset of the features that we support in PicketLink. Specifically missing are authentication, and support for the extended relationship types (basically everything besides group membership). I'm wondering if it might be worth providing a PicketLink REST module instead, which would provide two sets of RESTful services; the first being a SCIM-compliant service, the second being a more proprietary service that exposes all of the capabilities of PicketLink.
>>
>> On top of this, I think it would be of huge benefit to provide both Java and JavaScript clients to consume both services. Anil has already implemented a Java-based SCIM client in the SCIM module, but imagine if we provided PicketLink JavaScript scripts that web application developers could drop into their app - this would be a huge development time saver. I'm also thinking that the JavaScript clients should support a variety of authentication mechanisms; BASIC, DIGEST, X509, user/password, OAuth, etc. This is kind of uncharted territory for me (REST-based auth) so any feedback or opinions on this would be appreciated.
>>
>> Shane
>>
>>
>> [1] http://www.simplecloud.info/specs/draft-scim-api-01.html
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