[keycloak-user] Encrypted SAML response

[Bill Burke]

Once you've enabled encryption, you have to go to the 'SAML Keys' tab. 
There is an Encryption Key at the bottom of that screen.  You can have 
Keycloak generate the private key and cert for the SP, or you can import 
the SP's certificate that is stored in a PEM file, JKS, or PKCS12 file.

On 6/22/16 3:47 AM, Pål Oliver Kristiansen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> We have set up Keycloak as an IDP with a F5 BigIP APM as a SAML SP.
> Everything works well out of the box, but when we activate encryption of
> assertions, we get an error on the
> BigIP side.
>
> So in order to investigate the situation, I'm trying to understand the
> process of SAML assertion response encryption.
> And I am a bit confused when reading the Keycloak documentation and
> comparing that to what I see in the Keycloak admin console.
> Here is what I mean; in the documentation
> (https://keycloak.github.io/docs/userguide/keycloak-server/html/saml.html),
> activating
> assertion response encryption is described like this:
>
> "Encrypt Assertions
> Encrypt assertions in SAML documents with the realm's private key. The
> AES algorithm is used with a key size of 128 bits."
>
> But in the admin console (under clients) it is described like this in
> the tooltip:
>
> "Encrypt Assertions
> Should SAML assertions be encrypted with client's public key using AES?"
>
> So basically, which key is used for encrypting the assertion response?
>
> I have inspected the actual HTTP post and it looks something like this:
>
> <samlp:Response>
> ...
>   <saml:EncryptedAssertion>
>     <xenc:EncryptedData xmlns:xenc="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#"
> Type="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#Element">
>       <xenc:EncryptionMethod
> Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#aes128-cbc"/>
>         <ds:KeyInfo xmlns:ds="http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#">
>           <xenc:EncryptedKey>
>             <xenc:EncryptionMethod
> Algorithm="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmlenc#rsa-1_5"/>
>             <xenc:CipherData>
>               <xenc:CipherValue>---[block of cipher
> text]---</xenc:CipherValue>
>             </xenc:CipherData>
>           </xenc:EncryptedKey>
>         </ds:KeyInfo>
>       <xenc:CipherData>
>         <xenc:CipherValue>---[block of cipher text]---</xenc:CipherValue>
>       </xenc:CipherData>
>     </xenc:EncryptedData>
>   </saml:EncryptedAssertion>
> </samlp:Response>
>
> So it at least looks like the key to decrypt the encrypted response is
> included. It is encrypted using RSA, but with which key?
> My understanding was something like this:
>
> 1. The encryption of a SAML assertion response is done using AES-128,
> with some key.
> 2. The key is added alongside the encrypted assertion response and
> encrypted using the SP's public key.
> 3. The SP receives the encrypted assertion response and the encrypted
> key, decrypts the key using its' private key and uses
> this decrypted key to decrypt the actual assertion response.
>
> Is this generally correct?
>
> The error we get from BigIP is this: "failed to process encrypted
> assertion, error: RSA decrypt"
> Which leads me to think that maybe the decryption of the included key
> did not work out.
> Any ideas or tips to how to approach this?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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