Musings on Digital Identity

Month: April 2020

OpenID Presentation at IIW XXX

OpenID logoI gave the following invited “101” session presentation at the 30th Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) on Tuesday, April 28, 2020:

I missed being able to gauge audience reactions by looking around the room but the virtualized session was still well attended by a good group of people, who let me know how OpenID Connect is relevant to what they’re doing.

Working group adoption of “OAuth 2.0 Demonstration of Proof-of-Possession at the Application Layer (DPoP)”

OAuth logoWe’re making progress on a simple application-level proof-of-possession solution for OAuth 2.0. I’m pleased to report that DPoP has now been adopted as an OAuth working group specification. The abstract of the specification is:

This document describes a mechanism for sender-constraining OAuth 2.0 tokens via a proof-of-possession mechanism on the application level. This mechanism allows for the detection of replay attacks with access and refresh tokens.

The specification is available at:

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