[Openid-specs-ab] Session management questions

Breno de Medeiros breno at google.com
Fri May 24 03:19:27 UTC 2013


I think we should use the same approach as in the immediate flow,
i.e., provide a hint about the intended user. In fact I had suggested
the entire id_token be supplied to the OP.

On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones at microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi Breno and Naveen,
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> (1)  Assume that two users (Alice and Bob) have sessions from the same RP
> logged into to the same OP.  Bob decides to log out.  Per the session
> management spec, Bob is logged out of the RP locally and then the RP
> redirects to the OP’s end_session_endpoint.  Does the OP also log Alice out
> when Bob consents the logout action or just Bob?  If Alice is not logged
> out, how does the OP know which user to log out?  Through Bob’s cookie?  (I
> think that this is the case, but wanted to verify it.)
>
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> At a minimum, we need to say what is expected to happen in this case in the
> spec.  It wasn’t clear to some developers reading it recently.
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> (2)  In a related question, should we be passing an id_token as a parameter
> to the logout URL so that the OP knows which session to log out?  Or is this
> already known, per the answer to (1)?  Would adding this parameter enable
> additional kinds of attacks?
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>                                                                 Thanks,
>
>                                                                 -- Mike
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>



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--Breno



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