IdentityServer client authentication with public/private keys instead of shared secrets

问题

I'm trying to use public/private keys instead of a shared secret for client secrets with IdentityServer4. This approach is documented here.

If it was a shared secret, the request would contain the secret in plain text. e.g.

curl -X POST \
  http://<identityserver>/connect/token \
  -F client_id=abc \
  -F client_secret=secret \
  -F grant_type=client_credentials \
  -F scope=api1 api2

My question is: What should be passed in as the secret with the public/private key authentication method?

To give some background, a Client using public/key authentication will register with IdentityServer with the following steps

Client generates a .crt file e.g.

// create key
$ openssl genrsa -des3 -passout pass:x -out client.pass.key 2048
$ openssl rsa -passin pass:x -in client.pass.key -out client.key

// create certificate request (csr)
$ openssl req -new -key client.key -out client.csr

// create certificate (crt)
$ openssl x509 -req -sha256 -days 365 -in client.csr -signkey client.key -out client.crt

// export pfx file from key and crt
$ openssl pkcs12 -export -out client.pfx -inkey client.key -in client.crt

Client will share the client.crt file with the IdentityServer

IdentityServer will register the Client by

var client = new Client
{
    ClientId = "abc",
    ClientSecrets =
    {
        new Secret
        {
            Type = IdentityServerConstants.SecretTypes.X509CertificateBase64,
            Value = "MIIDF...." <================= contents of the crt file
        }
    },

    AllowedGrantTypes = GrantTypes.ClientCredentials,
    AllowedScopes = { "api1", "api2" }
};

回答1:

Figured this out thanks to the unit tests in IdentityServer4!

When using public/private authentication, client_secret is not used. Rather, a client_assertion is used, which is a JWT token.

Here is sample code for the token request. client.pfx is the certificate bundle generated from the steps above in the question.

var now = DateTime.UtcNow;
var clientId = "abc";
var tokenEndpoint = "http://localhost:5000/connect/token";

var cert = new X509Certificate2("client.pfx", "1234");

// create client_assertion JWT token
var token = new JwtSecurityToken(
    clientId,
    tokenEndpoint,
    new List<Claim>
    {
        new Claim("jti", Guid.NewGuid().ToString()),
        new Claim(JwtClaimTypes.Subject, clientId),
        new Claim(JwtClaimTypes.IssuedAt, now.ToEpochTime().ToString(), ClaimValueTypes.Integer64)
    },
    now,
    now.AddMinutes(1),
    new SigningCredentials(
        new X509SecurityKey(cert),
        SecurityAlgorithms.RsaSha256
    )
);

var tokenHandler = new JwtSecurityTokenHandler();
var tokenString = tokenHandler.WriteToken(token);


// token request - note there's no client_secret but a client_assertion which contains the token above
var requestBody = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new Dictionary<string, string>
{
    {"client_id", clientId},
    {"client_assertion_type", "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer"},
    {"client_assertion", tokenString},
    {"grant_type", "client_credentials"},
    {"scope", "api1 api2"}
});


var client = new HttpClient();
var response = await client.PostAsync(tokenEndpoint, requestBody);
var tokenRespone = new TokenResponse(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());

回答2:

I think it has to be a signed JWT. Check out the PrivateKeyJwtSecretValidator class in the IDS4 codebase:

https://github.com/IdentityServer/IdentityServer4/blob/2.1.3/src/IdentityServer4/Validation/PrivateKeyJwtSecretValidator.cs

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49686262/identityserver-client-authentication-with-public-private-keys-instead-of-shared

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