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Story #2661

handling complicated identity-equivalencies for authorization

Added by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago. Updated over 11 years ago.

Status:
Closed
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Category:
Authentication, Authorization
Start date:
2012-04-30
Due date:
2012-10-06
% Done:

100%

Story Points:
Sprint:

Description

Over time, dataone users will accumulate multiple institutional accounts that will be linked via equivalent-identity mappings, representable as a graph of identities linked with bidirectional equivalencies (each knows the other as an equivalent identity). These graphs are encapsulated and persisted in collection of Person objects the CN identityManager maintains, and need to be available to entities (CNs and MNs) responsible for authorizing a requestor's action.

Dataone needs to articulate both:
* the desired behavior of authorization with regards to the "transitivity" of permissions across these graphs (does group membership convey? does verified status? is either limited somehow? etc.)
* the responsibilities of each of the players involved in authorizing actions for users (the CNs, CILogon, and the MNs) to meet the desired behavior

Responsibilities for the CNs include:
* what Persons to return in the SubjectInfo, and are they guaranteed to be equivalent identities (can the authorizing agent trust that)?
* is that set of Persons the complete graph?

Responsibilities for CILogon:
* guarantee to return only unadulterated SubjectInfo from getSubjectInfo in the certificate?

For the authorizing entity:
* Does it need to recurse the set of Persons provided with the certificate SubjectInfo, or can it just include all of those subjects?
* Is it expected to call cn.listSubjects() to complete the graph if there are missing Persons from what was provided?
* Does it apply the appropriate restrictions on transitivity if that's the policy?


Subtasks

Task #2662: Decide transitivity behavior for verification, equivalent identities wrt/ authorizationClosed

Task #2663: what is returned by CN.getSubjectInfo()?Closed

Task #2665: Authorization consistency between language implementationsClosedDave Vieglais

Task #2666: create python tool for returning equivalent IDs from sessionClosedAndrew Pippin

Task #2667: create java tool for returning equivalent IDs from sessionClosedRob Nahf

Task #2668: create python tool for returning isAuthorized given AccessPolicy and list of SubjectsClosedAndrew Pippin

Task #2669: create java tool for returning isAuthorized given AccessPolicy and list of SubjectsClosedRob Nahf

Task #2670: check for character limit of customMessages within certificatesClosedRob Nahf

History

#1 Updated by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago

  • Category set to Authentication, Authorization
  • Assignee set to Dave Vieglais
  • Subject changed from handling complicated identity-equivalencies to handling complicated identity-equivalencies for authorization

#2 Updated by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago

Three approaches were proposed with regards to what to put in the getSubjectInfo() response that's handed to CILogon and stuffed into a certificate:

put a "starter set" of Person objects in the SubjectInfo that represents the Person of the connecting subject and it's immediate (1st degree) equivalent identities. This would be the full graph for the majority of users, and would save the cost of recursion for the cn in processing getSubjectInfo.

include the entire set of Person objects in the equivalant-identities graph.

Fully connect the graph so that approach 1 would equal approach 2, and save the recurring cost of recursion for an upfront hit to connect the graph.

Fully connecting the graph may be problematic to long term maintenance of identities - if an errant equivalency is made and needs to be retracted, it would be impossible to disconnect the two sub-graphs unless some sort of history of the datastore is maintained.

#3 Updated by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago

adding tasks based on outcome of the standup discussion.

see also epad notes (the epad doesn't contain all decisions) : http://epad.dataone.org/Sprint-2012-17 towards the bottom

#4 Updated by Dave Vieglais almost 12 years ago

  • Position deleted (2)
  • Position set to 2
  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.17-Block.3.1 to Sprint-2012.19-Block.3.2

#5 Updated by Dave Vieglais almost 12 years ago

  • Position set to 1
  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.19-Block.3.2 to Sprint-2012.21-Block.3.3
  • Position changed from 1 to 450
  • Position deleted (18)

#6 Updated by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago

  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.21-Block.3.3 to Sprint-2012.23-Block.3.4
  • Position set to 2
  • Position deleted (452)

#7 Updated by Rob Nahf almost 12 years ago

  • Status changed from New to In Progress
  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.23-Block.3.4 to Sprint-2012.25-Block.4.1

#8 Updated by Dave Vieglais over 11 years ago

  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.25-Block.4.1 to Sprint-2012.33-Block.5.1
  • Milestone changed from CCI-1.0.0 to CCI-1.0.4

#9 Updated by Dave Vieglais over 11 years ago

  • Position set to 1
  • Position deleted (21)
  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.33-Block.5.1 to Sprint-2012.35-Block.5.2

#10 Updated by Dave Vieglais over 11 years ago

  • Milestone changed from CCI-1.0.4 to CCI-1.0.5

#11 Updated by Chris Jones over 11 years ago

  • Milestone changed from CCI-1.0.5 to CCI-1.1
  • Target version changed from Sprint-2012.35-Block.5.2 to Sprint-2012.39-Block.5.4
  • Due date set to 2012-10-06

#12 Updated by Dave Vieglais over 11 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Closed

Work on this topic appears to be complete.

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