[security] OpenID Security Best Practices Doc

[John Bradley]

The other approach that has been used to secure 1.1 RP's is to place a  
signed nonce in the nonce in the return_to URI.   The RP verifies its  
own sig.

I believe this is an option in DotNetOpenAuth for openID as well.

This removes the need for the RP to synchronize data across servers.   
This assumes properly configured load balancers though.

That is one other approach.

John B.
On 8-Jun-09, at 7:35 PM, Allen Tom wrote:

> Hi Johannes,
>
> My personal opinion is that if HTTPS is used for the entire protocol  
> flow, including the RP's return_to URL, then the RP should be able  
> to verify that the timetamp in the nonce is current, to within a few  
> minutes, as opposed to having to verify that the entire nonce is  
> truly unique.
>
> Allen
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> Johannes Ernst wrote:
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>> On Jun 8, 2009, at 15:50, Allen Tom wrote:
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>>>> 6)  Pull the replay warning into its own bullet, and mention the  
>>>> use of a timestamp to bound the time nonces must be stored for.
>>> [atom] Also a good point. On a related note, many large globally  
>>> distributed RPs may have a hard time implementing nonces as per  
>>> the OpenID spec, as it's technically tricky to globally replicate  
>>> data, especially if it needs to be replicated very quickly. In  
>>> practice, RPs may only find it practical to verify that the  
>>> timestamp is "current" as opposed to actually verifying that the  
>>> nonce is can only be used once.
>>
>> In this case, do these mythical "globally distributed RPs" have a  
>> better approach for avoiding replay attacks or do they simply  
>> swallow that risk because no better approach is known.
>>
>> Just wondering ...
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>> Johannes Ernst
>> NetMesh Inc.
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