Web Authorization Protocol (oauth) ---------------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 2011-12-09 Current Status: Active Working Group Chair(s): Hannes Tschofenig Barry Leiba Derek Atkins Security Area Director(s): Stephen Farrell Sean Turner Security Area Advisor: Stephen Farrell Technical Advisor(s): Peter Saint-Andre Mailing Lists: General Discussion:oauth@ietf.org To Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/oauth Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/maillist.html Description of Working Group: The Web Authorization (OAuth) protocol allows a user to grant a third-party Web site or application access to the user's protected resources, without necessarily revealing their long-term credentials, or even their identity. For example, a photo-sharing site that supports OAuth could allow its users to use a third-party printing Web site to print their private pictures, without allowing the printing site to gain full control of the user's account. OAuth encompasses * a mechanism for a user to authorize issuance of credentials that a third party can use to access resources on the user's behalf and * a mechanism for using the issued credentials to authenticate HTTP requests. In April 2010 the OAuth 1.0 specification, documenting pre-IETF work, was published as an informational document (RFC 5849). The working group has since been developing OAuth 2.0, a standards-track version that will reflect IETF consensus. Version 2.0 will consider the implementation experience with version 1.0, a discovered security vulnerability (session fixation attack), the use cases and functionality proposed with OAuth WRAP [draft-hardt-oauth-01] and will * improve the terminology used, * consider broader use cases, * embody good security practices, * improve interoperability, and * provide guidelines for extensibility. The working group will develop authentication schemes for peers/servers taking part in OAuth (accessing protected resources). This includes * an HMAC-based authentication mechanism This document aims to provide a general purpose MAC authentication scheme that can be used both with OAuth 2.0 but also with other use cases. The WG will work with the security and applications area directors to ensure that this work gets appropriate review, e.g. via additional last calls in other relevant working groups such as HTTPBIS, * a specification for access protected by Transport Layer Security (bearer tokens), * an extension to OAuth 2.0 to allow access tokens to be requested when a client is in possession of a SAML assertion. A separate informational description will be produced to provide additional security analysis for audiences beyond the community of protocol implementers. Milestones will be added for the later items after the near-term work has been completed. Goals and Milestones: Done Submit 'OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security Considerations' as a working group item Done Submit 'HTTP Authentication: MAC Authentication' as a working group item Jul 2011 Submit 'The OAuth 2.0 Protocol: Bearer Tokens' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Done Submit 'The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Aug 2011 Submit 'HTTP Authentication: MAC Authentication' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Oct 2011 Submit 'SAML 2.0 Bearer Assertion Grant Type Profile for OAuth 2.0' to the IESG for consideration as a Proposed Standard Oct 2011 Re-chartering working group Internet-Drafts: Posted Revised I-D Title ------ ------- -------------------------------------------- Apr 2010 Jan 2012 The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol Dec 2010 Feb 2012 The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Protocol: Bearer Tokens Jan 2011 Jan 2012 SAML 2.0 Bearer Assertion Profiles for OAuth 2.0 May 2011 Feb 2012 HTTP Authentication: MAC Access Authentication Jul 2011 Oct 2011 OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security Considerations Jul 2011 Oct 2011 OAuth 2.0 Assertion Profile Aug 2011 Jan 2012 An IETF URN Sub-Namespace for OAuth Request For Comments: None to date.