[keycloak-dev] token exchange

[Stian Thorgersen]

'aud' is broken:
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/KEYCLOAK-1201

Big question is how do you control what the list of "clients" in the aud
should be? Manually? Based on scope (what about full scope and loads of
clients, what about when there are no client roles)?

On 15 August 2017 at 14:41, Pedro Igor Silva <psilva at redhat.com> wrote:

>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 10:42 AM, Bill Burke <bburke at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> CLI tool I wrote doesn't allow token exchange, yet, but you're correct,
>> I'm thinking of using it to perform token exchange.
>>
>> Our ID tokens are not signed right now.  Also you still need client to
>> client exchange so that you can "downgrade" a token to talk to an untrusted
>> service.  I've also added new fine-grain permissions "exchange-from" and
>> "exchange-to".
>>
>> For example, lets say Client A gets token and invokes on service B which
>> needs to invoke on untrusted service C.
>>
>
> When Client A gets token to invoke Service B, how the "aud" claim in the
> token looks like for you ? Is it referencing Service B ?
>
> Asking because I noticed that our access tokens are being issued using the
> authenticated client in "aud" claim where it should contain (or in addition
> to other audiences) the target service. A typical scenario for bearer token
> authentication. Also, our BearerTokenRequestAuthenticator does not seem
> to validate audience.
>
> Considering the flow you described, Client A would need a token with
> Service B as a valid audience in order to be able to start the flow.
>