Re: [OAUTH-WG] Revised Charter

2011-04-27 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
Thanks for getting this started. > -Original Message- > From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf > Of Blaine Cook > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 2:37 PM > Description of Working Group > > The Open Web Authentication (OAuth) protocol allows a user to grant

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Revised Charter

2011-04-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
FWIW, I'd have no problem proposing a re-charter along these lines to the IESG, if that's what the WG want. Thanks to the chairs for putting it together. S. On 27/04/11 22:36, Blaine Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that the Easter holiday is over, please review the following > revised OAuth char

[OAUTH-WG] Revised Charter

2011-04-27 Thread Blaine Cook
Hi all, Now that the Easter holiday is over, please review the following revised OAuth charter and provide feedback by May 5th (one week from today). Thanks! Description of Working Group The Open Web Authentication (OAuth) protocol allows a user to grant a third-party Web site or application ac

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop aboutOAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Anders Rundgren
Hi Axel et al. Thanx for mentioning my WebPKI.org work :-) I have personally not taken the JS / DOM route because in the case you have a process that needs to be secured beyond a single request/response-pair you tend to run into difficulties combining trusted and untrusted code. I.e. all my curre

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
> I did find it amusing that the paper defines bearer token as a 'cryptographic > approach'. I guess no crypto is in its way an approach :-). Well. It uses TLS as the underlying primitive. As such, it is a cryptographic mechanism. I know that we have different views about the pros & cons of the

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop aboutOAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Axel.Nennker
Hi Hannes, A) Authentication Mechanisms Anders Rundgren is a caller in the desert for this for years: http://webpki.org/ B) Authorization Interface I think this is the point closest to oauth and that needs the most work. C) Standardized JavaScript Crypto Library Support This was discussed e.g. in

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Fixed it. Thanks for pointing this out. Ciao Hannes Ps: Did we miss any technical points that would be useful to bring forward to the Web browser community to improve the security of OAuth? On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:50 PM, Igor Faynberg wrote: > Good eye! (And an excellent point.) > > Igor >

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Igor Faynberg
Good eye! (And an excellent point.) Igor Paul Madsen wrote: but you are describing the protocol in the paper, not the group A reference like 'The Open Web Authentication (OAuth) protocol [1]' to [1] E. Hammer-Lahav, D. Recordon, and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol,” is go

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
This is true. There is no Open Web Authentication protocol. Only a WG. EHL > -Original Message- > From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf > Of Paul Madsen > Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:41 AM > To: Hannes Tschofenig > Cc: oauth@ietf.org > Subject: Re: [

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Madsen
but you are describing the protocol in the paper, not the group A reference like 'The Open Web Authentication (OAuth) protocol [1]' to [1] E. Hammer-Lahav, D. Recordon, and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol,” is going to confuse On 4/27/11 11:35 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Torsten Lodderstedt
Am 27.04.2011 17:35, schrieb Hannes Tschofenig: In some sense you are right. The problem is just that this is the name of the group :-) http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/charter/ Maybe we should adjust the name with the rechartering process. I think we should. regards, Torsten. On Apr 27

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
In some sense you are right. The problem is just that this is the name of the group :-) http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/oauth/charter/ Maybe we should adjust the name with the rechartering process. On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:17 PM, Paul Madsen wrote: > 'Open Web Authentication protocol'? authentic

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
It's a relic from the formation of the working group. I did find it amusing that the paper defines bearer token as a 'cryptographic approach'. I guess no crypto is in its way an approach :-). EHL > -Original Message- > From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Beha

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Dave Nelson
Hi Hannes, One comment immediately in the title. Isn't OAuth short for Open Authorization, not Authentication? Regards, Dave David B. Nelson Sr. Software Architect Elbrys Networks, Inc. www.elbrys.com +1.603.570.2636 ___ OAuth mailing list OAuth@ietf.o

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Paul Madsen
'Open Web Authentication protocol'? authentication? On 4/27/11 11:06 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: Hi guys, Barry, Blaine and I compiled a short position paper for the upcoming W3C identity in the browser workshop. Here is the call for participation: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/svn/w3c-bro

[OAUTH-WG] Paper for the W3C Identity in the Browser Workshop about OAuth

2011-04-27 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi guys, Barry, Blaine and I compiled a short position paper for the upcoming W3C identity in the browser workshop. Here is the call for participation: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/svn/w3c-browser-identity/ Here is the position paper: http://www.tschofenig.priv.at/svn/w3c-browser-identity/o