Summary
A number of research community use cases require users to verify their identity by using more than one type of credentials, for instance using password authentication, together with some physical object such as a phone or usb stick that generates tokens/pins, etc. At the same time, there are services that may require an already logged in user to re-authenticate using a stronger authentication mechanism when accessing sensitive resources. Authentication step-up is then needed to improve the original authentication strength of those users. This document provides guidelines on step-up of the authentication component. It covers requirements and implementation recommendations, describes a proposed authentication step-up model, and outlines related work and documentation.
Links
Guidelines page
https://aarc-project.eu/guidelines/aarc-g029/
Working docs
Google-Doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQqK9-_DTRwrqeFhiQywQ0iVZindFrK9-Ozx9eY0ols
Final Documents (MS Word & PDF)
Meetings schedule and Minutes
Date | Location | Agenda | Minutes |
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2017-07-17-11 13-00 (CEST) | https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/aarc-jra1 | Discuss documents A, B, C:
| We essentially worked inside the documents. Minutes do not make sense at this point |
2017-07-28 13:00 (CEST) | https://webconf.vc.dfn.de/aarc-jra1 | Discussion of documents A, B, C | Decided to prioritise document C Introduced June from RZG, who is liasing for Geant to consume results of our document Document responsibility handed to Uros, Finalise Intro: Marcus |
2017-11-07 10:00 (CET) | Agreed from now on to use Vidyo room: https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Doc discussion | Short review of the doc, and discussion about the future steps. Discussion about the possible implementations of the step-up: From the SP point of view, there are 3 use cases:
Possible description of the third use case:
Future work:
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2017-12-05 10:00 (CET) | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Discuss evolution of SuA documents | There will be three documents:
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2018-01-16 10:00 (CET) | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Followup on Step-Up and other documents | We agreed to put all definitions to the AARC1-JRA1-Terms and definitions google doc at https://docs.google.com/document/d/18AllfUKLi90f1odm6hINkQvRljbFhy9lfkY1M447uBQ |
2018-01-30 10:00 (CET) | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Finalise Step-up document | Received various comments from Mikael, Jens and Mischa Will include step-up flows from a Geant doc of Christos (Second factor authentication component for the Life Science AAI) Will have Session at TIIME to discuss final document Marcus will circulate a close-to-final version on Wednesday |
2018-02-13 10:00 (CET) | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Finalise Step-up document | Received comments on close-to-final version Discussed comments Marcus will circulate a 'pretty-final' (=closer-to-final) version on Wednesday The call was missing partners from
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2018-03-06 10:00 (CET) | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Finalise Step-up document | Move sections 2 and 4 to appendix Open consultation about the recommendations |
2018-03-13 10:00 | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Finalise Step-up document | Closed final comments in the document. Document frozen for the internal review at Geant (many thanks!!) |
2018-03-20 10:00 | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Finalise Step-up document | |
2018-03-27 10:00 | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Information on finalisation process | Additional recommendation regarding the home-IdP to announce his capability to do MFA added to the document. |
2018-04-04 10:00 | https://www.nikhef.nl/grid/video/?m=aarcjra1 | Information on finalisation process | We had further discussion on the document over easter. In addition to wording, changes were mostly regarding whether and how the home-IdP announces his MFA capability. This part was moved to conlcusions, because it's not quite clear yet. We also discussed whether we recommend that IdPs SHOULD inform whether they have MFA or whether they HAVE TO (in the sense that it would not make much sense otherwise). We agreed on SHOULD. |