Re: [OAUTH-WG] vulnerability in OAuth 2.0/ 1.0/ WRAP leading to DDOS attacks

2010-11-19 Thread Oleg Gryb
I agree that there should be mitigation controls in place on web server clients: it would alleviate Authz Server task of blocking fraudulent traffic and make the whole solution more scalable. Using signatures looks like a good idea, but key distribution needs to be automated in this case. Her

Re: [OAUTH-WG] vulnerability in OAuth 2.0/ 1.0/ WRAP leading to DDOS attacks

2010-11-19 Thread pflam
Thanks, Oleg, for the note. I agree that key distribution has been a difficult problem. Since the OAuth draft 10 section 2.1 provides a mechanism for the client to authenticate to the Authz Server using some shared symmetric secret, I think the MAC scheme can be built on the presumably available s