Add Issuer Trust to Security Considerations#254
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Two non-normative bullets, both raised by @csarven on solid/specification#776 (solid/specification#776 (comment)): - Issuer trust is unconditional: a compromised / malicious / unavailable issuer can deny access, impersonate, or rewrite identity-related claims. - Many agents on a single issuer is a single point of failure: concentration risk grows with the issuer's user base.
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@jeswr, just a quick ping - what do you think about the above suggestion? Do these sound good to you? |
Co-authored-by: Jesse Wright <63333554+jeswr@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Christoph Braun <braun@kit.edu>
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Thanks for pinging @uvdsl - great suggestions, all approved. |
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Could one of you please fix the diff /conflict? |
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@elf-pavlik, fixed it :) |
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Also pinging @acoburn - if you want to suggest additions or modifications? :) |
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The change is small — see the diff. Bikeshed-rendered preview is not currently available for feature branches (the CI build only publishes from
main).Summary
Adds a new non-normative subsection
Issuer Trustto § Security Considerations (after § Client Trust), covering two issuer-side considerations that the current text does not surface:Source
Both points were raised by @csarven on solid/specification#776. Surfacing them upstream here as the appropriate home for OIDC-specific Security and Privacy Considerations.
Test plan
bikeshed spec(or the project's equivalent) builds without errors.# Security Considerations # {#security}shows the new## Issuer Trust ## {#security-issuer-trust}subsection between Client Trust and Privacy Considerations.#security-issuer-trustresolves.