Authentication & Authorization for Microservices and Web APIs

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AUTHENTICATION & AUTHORIZATION  FOR MICROSERVICES & WEB APIS NIKO KÖBLER (@DASNIKO)

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ABOUT ME ▸ Freelance Consultant/Architect/Developer/Trainer @ www.n-k.de ▸ Doing stuff with & without computers, writing Software, ~ 20 yrs ▸ Co-Lead of JUG DA (https://www.jug-da.de / @JUG_DA) ▸ Speaker at international Tech Conferences ▸ Author of „Serverless Computing in AWS Cloud“ (german)  serverlessbuch.de ▸ Twitter: @dasniko

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SECURITY OWASP (TOP10)

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AUTHENTICATION AUTHORIZATION

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AUTHENTICATION I don’t know who you are. AUTHORIZATION I know who you are, but you’re not allowed.

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HTTP STATUS CODES 401 UNAUTHORIZED means Not authenticated 403 FORBIDDEN means Unauthorized

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DISTRIBUTED APIS

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DISTRIBUTED APIS ONE CENTRALIZED APPROACH FOR DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS WHEN IT COMES TO AUTH*? YES, IT’S CALLED SINGLE SIGN ON!

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SIMPLY —————————————————— SECURE

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HOW DO YOU AUTHENTICATE?

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TOKEN!

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SAML - SECURITY ASSERTION MARKUP LANGUAGE https://idp.example.org/SAML2 ... 3f7b3dcf-1674-4ecd-92c8-1544f346baf8 ...

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OAUTH2 AUTHORIZATION, NOT AUTHENTICATION! The OAuth 2.0 authorization framework enables a 3rd-party application to obtain limited access to an HTTP service. IETF, RFC 6749, 2012

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OAUTH2 GRANT TYPES GRANT TYPE APPS Authorization Code Web, Apps Implicit JavaScript, etc. Resource Owner Password Credentials Apps Client Credentials Web Refresh Token Web, Apps

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OAUTH2 ABSTRACT PROTOCOL FLOW

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ACCESS TOKEN { "access_token": "6041a9d7-8c39-4945-b7c6-eaf7bd5d0907", "token_type": "Bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "refresh_token": "e339b569-6d95-482d-9534-5c0147136ab0" }

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OPEN ID CONNECT NOT OPEN ID! AUTHENTICATION LAYER ON TOP OF OAUTH 2.0 ‣ verify the identity of an end-user ‣ obtain basic proﬁle information about the user ‣ RESTful HTTP API, using JSON as data format ‣ allows clients of all types (web-based, mobile, JavaScript) OPENID FOUNDATION, 2014

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OIDC { "access_token": "6041a9d7-8c39-4945-b7c6-eaf7bd5d0907", "token_type": "Bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "identity_token": "???", "refresh_token": "e339b569-6d95-482d-9534-5c0147136ab0" } OPENID CONNECT ADDS THE IDENTITY TOKEN

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JWT JSON WEB TOKEN RFC 7519 STANDARD, 2015

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JWT eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzdWIiOi IxMjM0NTY3ODkwIiwibmFtZSI6IkpvaG4gRG9lIiwiY WRtaW4iOnRydWV9.TJVA95OrM7E2cBab30RMHrH DcEfxjoYZgeFONFh7HgQ BASE64 ENCODED

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JSON WEB TOKEN

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JWT PAYLOAD { "sub": "1234567890", "iss": "https://sso.myapi.com", "aud": "myApi", "exp": 1479814753, "name": "John Doe", "admin": true } RESERVED CLAIMS: sub, iss, aud, exp

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OPEN ID CONNECT STANDARD CLAIMS http://openid.net/specs/openid-connect-core-1_0.html

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ACCESS TOKEN { "access_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...", "token_type": "Bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "identity_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9...", "refresh_token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9..." }

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TOKEN USAGE

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TOKEN USAGE

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TOKENS ‣ Base for access on secured resources. ‣ A token is signed and contains all necessary information about the user and its roles. ‣ Kinds: Identity-, Refresh-, (Ofﬂine-) & Accesstokens ‣ Send in Bearer format:  Authorization: Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9... ‣ Have a TTL! ‣ Must be revocable!

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WHAT DOES  JAVA OFFER?

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WHAT DOES JAVA OFFER? ‣ Java EE / Jakarta EE: Java Security API (JSR-375) ‣ Spring Security 5: OAuth became First Class Citizen ‣ Apache Shiro: no OAuth2/OIDC/JWT ‣ Apache Oltu: OAuth2/OIDC/JWT, but who knows? ‣ and many more…

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JWT LIBRARIES (JAVA) ‣ github.com/auth0/java-jwt ‣ bitbucket.org/b_c/jose4j ‣ bitbucket.org/connect2id/nimbus-jose-jwt ‣ github.com/jwtk/jjwt ‣ and many more…

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WHAT DOES THE  ECOSYSTEM OFFER?

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WHAT DOES THE ECOSYSTEM OFFER? ‣ Auth0 ‣ AWS Cognito ‣ Stormpath ‣ and many more… ‣ BUT: you have to outsource your users personal data (and passwords)!

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Open Source Identity and Access Management for Modern Applications and Services MIGHT(!) BE A GOOD FIT keycloak.org

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LET’S DO SOME  DEMO!

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THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? Niko Köbler | www.n-k.de | niko@n-k.de | @dasniko AUTH* FOR MICROSERVICES & WEB APIS