[Openstack] Keystone: 'PKI Signed Tokens' lack support for revocation

Maru Newby mnewby at internap.com
Thu Aug 9 13:24:32 UTC 2012


Hi Adam,

The blueprint as revised to address Joe's comments looks good to me - nice work.  I especially like how the middleware is intended to cache the revocation list for a configurable amount of time - it mirrors how token caching already works.

Cheers,


Maru

On 2012-08-07, at 10:09 AM, Adam Young wrote:

> On 08/01/2012 09:19 PM, Maru Newby wrote:
>> 
>> I see that support for PKI Signed Tokens has been added to Keystone without support for token revocation.  I tried to raise this issue on the bug report:
>> 
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/keystone/+bug/1003962/comments/4
>> 
>> And the review:
>> 
>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/7754/
>> 
>> I'm curious as to whether anybody shares my concern and if there is a specific reason why nobody responded to my question as to why revocation is not required for this new token scheme.   Anybody?
> 
> I have written up a blueprint for PKI token revocation.  Please provide feedback.
> 
> 
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/keystone/+spec/pki-revoke
> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> Maru
>> 
>> 
>> 
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