[Openid-specs-ab] The other JSS envelope structure
Nat Sakimura
sakimura at gmail.com
Wed Oct 6 07:41:35 UTC 2010
Hi John,
I talked with Hideki today and now understood what he meant.
Basically, what he is proposing can essentially be reduced to:
{
"oauth_token": "asdfjklsdfjwoIjfk",
"not_after": 12345678,
"user_id": 1223,
"profile_id": 1223 ,
"http://jsonenc.info/jss/sig_params" :
[
{
"certs_uri": "https://example.com/mycerts.pem"
},
{
"algorithm": "RSA-SHA1",
"certs_uri": "https://example.org/mycerts.pem"
}
] ,
}
AND Signed result like:
{
"type": "http://openid.net/specs/ab/1.0#signed_format",
"data_type": "application/json",
"data": "eyJhbGdvcml0aG0iOiJITUFDLVNIQTI1NiIsIjAiOiJwYXlsb2FkIn0",
"sigs": [
"vlXgu64BQGFSQrY0ZcJBZASMvYvTHu9GQ0YM9rjPSso",
"cfXgu64BQGFSQrY0ZcJBZASMvYvTHu9GQ0YM9rjPSso"
]
}
sigs does not have to have the key_id or certs_uri because the order of the
array is always preserved.
He even goes on for Web Token to be something like:
sig1.sig2. ... .data
so that it can have any number of signatures.
=nat
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 6:32 AM, John Bradley <jbradley at mac.com> wrote:
> For security reasons the signature and hash algorithm need to be a part of
> the signed data.
> It would be easier if that were not the case. If there only one hash and
> valid signing algorithm they could also be skipped.
>
> Allowing a attacker to modify the algorithm creates a potential security
> hole.
> This was learned the hard way other places:)
>
> The proposed outer envelope contains the signature and payload, there is no
> collision problem there.
>
> The problem comes from trying to insert our signature elements into someone
> else's JSON object.
>
> That mostly happens if they happen to be using env for something else.
>
> Unless we choose a URI for our element names, we run the rusk of colliding.
>
> Perhaps I am lazy, it just seems easier to me, to keep the objects
> separate.
>
> John B.
>
> On 2010-10-05, at 5:15 PM, nara hideki wrote:
>
> > Thanks John,
> >
> > I might misunderstood something, but there doesn't seems to be
> > namespace collision because the whole (root) JSON object
> > including envelope JSON object is to be canonicalized in base64url
> > format and set to "data" in JSON Serialization.
> >
> > I'd like to know the reason why envelope JSON MUST not be included in
> > signature base string.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > ----
> > hdknr
> >
> >
> > 2010/10/6 John Bradley <jbradley at mac.com>:
> >> True, but we still have the problem of conflicting with elements in the
> object that we are trying to sign.
> >>
> >> It is also harder to recover the original object at the end of the
> process if you don't keep it separate.
> >>
> >> I see this as an enveloping signature where the original JSON is
> contained in a single element and can be easily extracted.
> >>
> >> You are going for more of an enveloped style where the signature
> elements become part of the object.
> >>
> >> If we weren't forced to base64 the entire thing for calculating the
> signature over I would probably favour your method.
> >>
> >> It would allow for you to receive an object and ignore the sig if you
> don't care about it.
> >>
> >> We cant do that in this case because the receiver must always unwrap the
> base64 encoding.
> >>
> >> So the most you can get out of the enveloped signature method is that
> after you receive JSON object and extract the encoded JSON object you have
> almost the object that you had when you started the signing process.
> >>
> >> In the Enveloping signature method you still need to extract the JSON
> form the payload. The advantage is what goes in comes out, and there are
> no namespace issues.
> >>
> >> I am not super attached to the idea, but that is my reasoning.
> >>
> >> John B.
> >> On 2010-10-05, at 3:42 PM, nara hideki wrote:
> >>
> >>> John, Nat , Thank you for your description.
> >>>
> >>> For multiple signers, this may work as well:
> >>>
> >>> {
> >>> "param1" : "xxxxx",
> >>> "param2" : "xxxxx",
> >>> ....
> >>> "env1": {
> >>> "type": "http://jsonenc.info/jss/",
> >>> "key_id": "signer1.com",
> >>> "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256"
> >>> ...
> >>> },
> >>> "env2": {
> >>> "type": "http://jsonenc.info/jss/",
> >>> "key_id": "signer2.com",
> >>> "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256"
> >>> ...
> >>> },
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> In the above implementation, "env1" and "env2" can be used as
> >>> identifiers(indexer) for signature
> >>> in JSON Serialization later.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> For arbitrary binary enveloping, we can freely put any base64url-ed
> >>> string in JSON fields anyway.
> >>> For simplicity, I think that JSS should target on only JSON.
> >>>
> >>> ----
> >>> hdknr
> >>>
> >>> 2010/10/6 Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>:
> >>>> There actually was another reason for having "payload" as a parameter.
> >>>> As a generic signature mechanism, we may want to sign arbitrary binary
> >>>> data.
> >>>> In such a case, we can base64url encode it and put it into "payload"
> >>>> parameter.
> >>>> =nat
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> In this example:
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> "oauth_token": "asdfjklsdfjwoIjfk",
> >>>>> "not_after": 12345678,
> >>>>> "user_id": 1223,
> >>>>> "profile_id": 1223 ,
> >>>>> "env" :
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> "type": "http://jsonenc.info/jss/",
> >>>>> "sig_params": [
> >>>>> {
> >>>>> "key_id": "example.com",
> >>>>> "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256"
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> ]
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> }
> >>>>> I do not think we need env. That would simplify.
> >>>>> The reason why we put everything inside the payload was that we
> thought it
> >>>>> would be easier to process. I am open to both ways.
> >>>>> What do others think?
> >>>>> =nat
> >>>>> On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 12:40 AM, nara hideki <hdknr at ic-tact.co.jp>
> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi, Nat,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> This revision of envelope is literally "envelope" in which
> parameters
> >>>>>> in concern are held as JSON object in "payload".
> >>>>>> But it looks more simpler to me if all signing parameters are held
> as
> >>>>>> a JSON object in the concerned data. I mean that the following
> sample
> >>>>>> :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "type": "http://jsonenc.info/jss/",
> >>>>>> "sig_params": [
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "key_id": "example.com",
> >>>>>> "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256"
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> ],
> >>>>>> "payload": {
> >>>>>> "oauth_token": "asdfjklsdfjwoIjfk",
> >>>>>> "not_after": 12345678,
> >>>>>> "user_id": 1223,
> >>>>>> "profile_id": 1223
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> can be simplified in this JSON:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "oauth_token": "asdfjklsdfjwoIjfk",
> >>>>>> "not_after": 12345678,
> >>>>>> "user_id": 1223,
> >>>>>> "profile_id": 1223 ,
> >>>>>> "env" :
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "type": "http://jsonenc.info/jss/",
> >>>>>> "sig_params": [
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "key_id": "example.com",
> >>>>>> "algorithm": "HMAC-SHA256"
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> ]
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> because if the original parameters without a signature can be
> following :
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> {
> >>>>>> "oauth_token": "asdfjklsdfjwoIjfk",
> >>>>>> "not_after": 12345678,
> >>>>>> "user_id": 1223,
> >>>>>> "profile_id": 1223
> >>>>>> }
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> From the programming effort's point of view, it doesn't make any
> >>>>>> difference.
> >>>>>> But JSON text looks simpler.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> We don't have to define holding parameter name as "env" because JSS
> >>>>>> JSON object MUST have
> >>>>>> "type". In Python, this code can be tell whether a JSON is
> JSS-envloped
> >>>>>> or not:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>> j=simplejson.loads( source_json_text )
> >>>>>>>>> True in [ type(v)==dict and v.has_key('type') and v['type'] ==
> >>>>>>>>> "http://jsonenc.info/jss/" for k,v in j.iteritems()]
> >>>>>> True
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> A drawback is a fact that "env" dosen't look literally an envelope.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ---
> >>>>>> hideki
> >>>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>>> Openid-specs-ab mailing list
> >>>>>> Openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net
> >>>>>> http://lists.openid.net/mailman/listinfo/openid-specs-ab
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> --
> >>>>> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> >>>>> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> >>>>> http://twitter.com/_nat_en
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> Nat Sakimura (=nat)
> >>>> http://www.sakimura.org/en/
> >>>> http://twitter.com/_nat_en
> >>>>
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>
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Nat Sakimura (=nat)
http://www.sakimura.org/en/
http://twitter.com/_nat_en
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