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Warren Parad

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On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 1:07 PM Neil Madden <neil.mad...@forgerock.com>
wrote:

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> On 18 Mar 2021, at 11:33, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <rifaat.s.i...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:45 AM Neil Madden <neil.mad...@forgerock.com>
> wrote:
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>> On 18 Mar 2021, at 05:33, Andrii Deinega <andrii.dein...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> The Cache-Control header, even with its strongest directive "no-store",
>> is pretty naive protection... Below is an excerpt from RFC 7234 (Hypertext
>> Transfer Protocol: Caching).
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>> This directive is NOT a reliable or sufficient mechanism for ensuring
>>> privacy.  In particular, malicious or compromised caches might not
>>> recognize or obey this directive, and communications networks might be
>>> vulnerable to eavesdropping.
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>> This quote is about privacy. Your concerns so far have been about replay
>> protection. TLS protects both.
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>> Regarding TLS, I've mentioned that we don't always have the luxury to see
>> what is going on with the infrastructure. A bright example would be an AS
>> implemented as a serverless application and hosted by one of the cloud
>> providers.
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>> Right, but (as I’ve said before) the same reasoning applies to a JWT too.
>> The infrastructure could just as easily “terminate JWS” as it currently
>> terminates TLS. As I keep saying, it’s much better to spend your time
>> ensuring end-to-end TLS than end-to-end JWT.
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> That's not always possible. In some enterprises, they will have an
> inspection middlebox that breaks the end-to-end TLS, e.g., ZScaler.
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> And if you use encrypted JWTs to work around that you’ll soon have
> inspection middleboxes that break end-to-end JWT. This isn’t a game we can
> win by adding more layers of the same solution.
>
> — Neil
>
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