OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 2 (original) (raw)

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Abstract

OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0 protocol. It enables Clients to verify the identity of the End-User based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the End-User in an interoperable and REST-like manner.

This specification defines the core OpenID Connect functionality: authentication built on top of OAuth 2.0 and the use of Claims to communicate information about the End-User. It also describes the security and privacy considerations for using OpenID Connect.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction
1.1.Requirements Notation and Conventions
1.2.Terminology
1.3.Overview
2.ID Token
3.Authentication
3.1.Authentication using the Authorization Code Flow
3.1.1.Authorization Code Flow Steps
3.1.2.Authorization Endpoint
3.1.2.1.Authentication Request
3.1.2.2.Authentication Request Validation
3.1.2.3.Authorization Server Authenticates End-User
3.1.2.4.Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization
3.1.2.5.Successful Authentication Response
3.1.2.6.Authentication Error Response
3.1.2.7.Authentication Response Validation
3.1.3.Token Endpoint
3.1.3.1.Token Request
3.1.3.2.Token Request Validation
3.1.3.3.Successful Token Response
3.1.3.4.Token Error Response
3.1.3.5.Token Response Validation
3.1.3.6.ID Token
3.1.3.7.ID Token Validation
3.1.3.8.Access Token Validation
3.2.Authentication using the Implicit Flow
3.2.1.Implicit Flow Steps
3.2.2.Authorization Endpoint
3.2.2.1.Authentication Request
3.2.2.2.Authentication Request Validation
3.2.2.3.Authorization Server Authenticates End-User
3.2.2.4.Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization
3.2.2.5.Successful Authentication Response
3.2.2.6.Authentication Error Response
3.2.2.7.Redirect URI Fragment Handling
3.2.2.8.Authentication Response Validation
3.2.2.9.Access Token Validation
3.2.2.10.ID Token
3.2.2.11.ID Token Validation
3.3.Authentication using the Hybrid Flow
3.3.1.Hybrid Flow Steps
3.3.2.Authorization Endpoint
3.3.2.1.Authentication Request
3.3.2.2.Authentication Request Validation
3.3.2.3.Authorization Server Authenticates End-User
3.3.2.4.Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization
3.3.2.5.Successful Authentication Response
3.3.2.6.Authentication Error Response
3.3.2.7.Redirect URI Fragment Handling
3.3.2.8.Authentication Response Validation
3.3.2.9.Access Token Validation
3.3.2.10.Authorization Code Validation
3.3.2.11.ID Token
3.3.2.12.ID Token Validation
3.3.3.Token Endpoint
3.3.3.1.Token Request
3.3.3.2.Token Request Validation
3.3.3.3.Successful Token Response
3.3.3.4.Token Error Response
3.3.3.5.Token Response Validation
3.3.3.6.ID Token
3.3.3.7.ID Token Validation
3.3.3.8.Access Token
3.3.3.9.Access Token Validation
4.Initiating Login from a Third Party
5.Claims
5.1.Standard Claims
5.1.1.Address Claim
5.1.2.Additional Claims
5.2.Claims Languages and Scripts
5.3.UserInfo Endpoint
5.3.1.UserInfo Request
5.3.2.Successful UserInfo Response
5.3.3.UserInfo Error Response
5.3.4.UserInfo Response Validation
5.4.Requesting Claims using Scope Values
5.5.Requesting Claims using the "claims" Request Parameter
5.5.1.Individual Claims Requests
5.5.1.1.Requesting the "acr" Claim
5.5.2.Languages and Scripts for Individual Claims
5.6.Claim Types
5.6.1.Normal Claims
5.6.2.Aggregated and Distributed Claims
5.6.2.1.Example of Aggregated Claims
5.6.2.2.Example of Distributed Claims
5.7.Claim Stability and Uniqueness
6.Passing Request Parameters as JWTs
6.1.Passing a Request Object by Value
6.1.1.Request using the "request" Request Parameter
6.2.Passing a Request Object by Reference
6.2.1.URI Referencing the Request Object
6.2.2.Request using the "request_uri" Request Parameter
6.2.3.Authorization Server Fetches Request Object
6.2.4."request_uri" Rationale
6.3.Validating JWT-Based Requests
6.3.1.Encrypted Request Object
6.3.2.Signed Request Object
6.3.3.Request Parameter Assembly and Validation
7.Self-Issued OpenID Provider
7.1.Self-Issued OpenID Provider Discovery
7.2.Self-Issued OpenID Provider Registration
7.2.1.Providing Information with the "registration" Request Parameter
7.3.Self-Issued OpenID Provider Request
7.4.Self-Issued OpenID Provider Response
7.5.Self-Issued ID Token Validation
8.Subject Identifier Types
8.1.Pairwise Identifier Algorithm
9.Client Authentication
10.Signatures and Encryption
10.1.Signing
10.1.1.Rotation of Asymmetric Signing Keys
10.2.Encryption
10.2.1.Rotation of Asymmetric Encryption Keys
11.Offline Access
12.Using Refresh Tokens
12.1.Refresh Request
12.2.Successful Refresh Response
12.3.Refresh Error Response
13.Serializations
13.1.Query String Serialization
13.2.Form Serialization
13.3.JSON Serialization
14.String Operations
15.Implementation Considerations
15.1.Mandatory to Implement Features for All OpenID Providers
15.2.Mandatory to Implement Features for Dynamic OpenID Providers
15.3.Discovery and Registration
15.4.Mandatory to Implement Features for Relying Parties
15.5.Implementation Notes
15.5.1.Authorization Code Implementation Notes
15.5.2.Nonce Implementation Notes
15.5.3.Redirect URI Fragment Handling Implementation Notes
15.6.Compatibility Notes
15.7.Related Specifications and Implementer's Guides
16.Security Considerations
16.1.Request Disclosure
16.2.Server Masquerading
16.3.Token Manufacture/Modification
16.4.Access Token Disclosure
16.5.Server Response Disclosure
16.6.Server Response Repudiation
16.7.Request Repudiation
16.8.Access Token Redirect
16.9.Token Reuse
16.10. Eavesdropping or Leaking Authorization Codes (Secondary Authenticator Capture)
16.11.Token Substitution
16.12.Timing Attack
16.13.Other Crypto Related Attacks
16.14.Signing and Encryption Order
16.15.Issuer Identifier
16.16.Implicit Flow Threats
16.17.TLS Requirements
16.18.Lifetimes of Access Tokens and Refresh Tokens
16.19.Symmetric Key Entropy
16.20.Need for Signed Requests
16.21.Need for Encrypted Requests
16.22.HTTP 307 Redirects
16.23.Custom URI Schemes on iOS
17.Privacy Considerations
17.1.Personally Identifiable Information
17.2.Data Access Monitoring
17.3.Correlation
17.4.Offline Access
18.IANA Considerations
18.1.JSON Web Token Claims Registration
18.1.1.Registry Contents
18.2.OAuth Parameters Registration
18.2.1.Registry Contents
18.3.OAuth Extensions Error Registration
18.3.1.Registry Contents
18.4.URI Scheme Registration
18.4.1.Registry Contents
19.References
19.1.Normative References
19.2.Informative References
Appendix A.Authorization Examples
A.1.Example using response_type=code
A.2.Example using response_type=id_token
A.3.Example using response_type=id_token token
A.4.Example using response_type=code id_token
A.5.Example using response_type=code token
A.6.Example using response_type=code id_token token
A.7.RSA Key Used in Examples
Appendix B.Acknowledgements
Appendix C.Notices
§Authors' Addresses

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1. Introduction

OpenID Connect 1.0 is a simple identity layer on top of the OAuth 2.0[RFC6749] (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) protocol. It enables Clients to verify the identity of the End-User based on the authentication performed by an Authorization Server, as well as to obtain basic profile information about the End-User in an interoperable and REST-like manner.

The OpenID Connect Core 1.0 specification defines the core OpenID Connect functionality: authentication built on top of OAuth 2.0 and the use of Claims to communicate information about the End-User. It also describes the security and privacy considerations for using OpenID Connect.

As background, the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] and OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750] specifications provide a general framework for third-party applications to obtain and use limited access to HTTP resources. They define mechanisms to obtain and use Access Tokens to access resources but do not define standard methods to provide identity information. Notably, without profiling OAuth 2.0, it is incapable of providing information about the authentication of an End-User. Readers are expected to be familiar with these specifications.

OpenID Connect implements authentication as an extension to the OAuth 2.0 authorization process. Use of this extension is requested by Clients by including the openid scope value in the Authorization Request. Information about the authentication performed is returned in a JSON Web Token (JWT) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT] called an ID Token (see Section 2 (ID Token)). OAuth 2.0 Authentication Servers implementing OpenID Connect are also referred to as OpenID Providers (OPs). OAuth 2.0 Clients using OpenID Connect are also referred to as Relying Parties (RPs).

This specification assumes that the Relying Party has already obtained configuration information about the OpenID Provider, including its Authorization Endpoint and Token Endpoint locations. This information is normally obtained via Discovery, as described in OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., and E. Jay, “OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Discovery], or may be obtained via other mechanisms.

Likewise, this specification assumes that the Relying Party has already obtained sufficient credentials and provided information needed to use the OpenID Provider. This is normally done via Dynamic Registration, as described inOpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration], or may be obtained via other mechanisms.

The previous versions of this specification are:

• OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., de Medeiros, B., and C. Mortimore, “OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1,” November 2014.) [OpenID.Core.Errata1]
• OpenID Connect Core 1.0 (final) (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., de Medeiros, B., and C. Mortimore, “OpenID Connect Core 1.0 (final),” February 2014.) [OpenID.Core.Final]

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1.1. Requirements Notation and Conventions

The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 (Bradner, S., “Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels,” March 1997.) [RFC2119].

In the .txt version of this specification, values are quoted to indicate that they are to be taken literally. When using these values in protocol messages, the quotes MUST NOT be used as part of the value. In the HTML version of this specification, values to be taken literally are indicated by the use of this fixed-width font.

All uses of JSON Web Signature (JWS) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] and JSON Web Encryption (JWE) (Jones, M. and J. Hildebrand, “JSON Web Encryption (JWE),” May 2015.) [JWE] data structures in this specification utilize the JWS Compact Serialization or the JWE Compact Serialization; the JWS JSON Serialization and the JWE JSON Serialization are not used.

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1.2. Terminology

This specification uses the terms "Access Token", "Authorization Code", "Authorization Endpoint", "Authorization Grant", "Authorization Server", "Client", "Client Authentication", "Client Identifier", "Client Secret", "Grant Type", "Protected Resource", "Redirection URI", "Refresh Token", "Resource Server", "Response Type", and "Token Endpoint" defined by OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], the terms "Claim Name", "Claim Value", "JSON Web Token (JWT)", "JWT Claims Set", and "Nested JWT" defined by JSON Web Token (JWT) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT], the terms "Base64url Encoding", "Header Parameter", and "JOSE Header" defined by JSON Web Signature (JWS) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS], the term "User Agent" defined by RFC 7230 (Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing,” June 2014.) [RFC7230], and the term "Response Mode" defined byOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses].

This specification also defines the following terms:

Authentication

Process used to achieve sufficient confidence in the binding between the Entity and the presented Identity.

Authentication Request

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request using extension parameters and scopes defined by OpenID Connect to request that the End-User be authenticated by the Authorization Server, which is an OpenID Connect Provider, to the Client, which is an OpenID Connect Relying Party.

Authentication Context

Information that the Relying Party can require before it makes an entitlement decision with respect to an authentication response. Such context can include, but is not limited to, the actual authentication method used or level of assurance such asISO/IEC 29115 (International Organization for Standardization, “ISO/IEC 29115:2013. Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication assurance framework,” April 2013.) [ISO29115] entity authentication assurance level.

Authentication Context Class

Set of authentication methods or procedures that are considered to be equivalent to each other in a particular context.

Authentication Context Class Reference

Identifier for an Authentication Context Class.

Authorization Code Flow

OAuth 2.0 flow in which an Authorization Code is returned from the Authorization Endpoint and all tokens are returned from the Token Endpoint.

Authorization Request

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request as defined by [RFC6749] (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.).

Claim

Piece of information asserted about an Entity.

Claim Type

Syntax used for representing a Claim Value. This specification defines Normal, Aggregated, and Distributed Claim Types.

Claims Provider

Server that can return Claims about an Entity.

Credential

Data presented as evidence of the right to use an identity or other resources.

End-User

Human participant.

Entity

Something that has a separate and distinct existence and that can be identified in a context. An End-User is one example of an Entity.

Essential Claim

Claim specified by the Client as being necessary to ensure a smooth authorization experience for the specific task requested by the End-User.

Hybrid Flow

OAuth 2.0 flow in which an Authorization Code is returned from the Authorization Endpoint, some tokens are returned from the Authorization Endpoint, and others are returned from the Token Endpoint.

ID Token

JSON Web Token (JWT) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT] that contains Claims about the Authentication event. It MAY contain other Claims.

Identifier

Value that uniquely characterizes an Entity in a specific context.

Identity

Set of attributes related to an Entity.

Implicit Flow

OAuth 2.0 flow in which all tokens are returned from the Authorization Endpoint and neither the Token Endpoint nor an Authorization Code are used.

Issuer

Entity that issues a set of Claims.

Issuer Identifier

Verifiable Identifier for an Issuer. An Issuer Identifier is a case-sensitive URL using the https scheme that contains scheme, host, and optionally, port number and path components and no query or fragment components.

Message

Request or a response between an OpenID Relying Party and an OpenID Provider.

OpenID Provider (OP)

OAuth 2.0 Authorization Server that is capable of Authenticating the End-User and providing Claims to a Relying Party about the Authentication event and the End-User.

Request Object

JWT that contains a set of request parameters as its Claims.

Request URI

URL that references a resource containing a Request Object. The Request URI contents MUST be retrievable by the Authorization Server.

Pairwise Pseudonymous Identifier (PPID)

Identifier that identifies the Entity to a Relying Party that cannot be correlated with the Entity's PPID at another Relying Party.

Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

Information that (a) can be used to identify the natural person to whom such information relates, or (b) is or might be directly or indirectly linked to a natural person to whom such information relates.

Relying Party (RP)

OAuth 2.0 Client application requiring End-User Authentication and Claims from an OpenID Provider.

Sector Identifier

Host component of a URL used by the Relying Party's organization that is an input to the computation of pairwise Subject Identifiers for that Relying Party.

Self-Issued OpenID Provider

Personal, self-hosted OpenID Provider that issues self-signed ID Tokens.

Subject Identifier

Locally unique and never reassigned identifier within the Issuer for the End-User, which is intended to be consumed by the Client.

UserInfo Endpoint

Protected Resource that, when presented with an Access Token by the Client, returns authorized information about the End-User represented by the corresponding Authorization Grant. The UserInfo Endpoint URL MUST use the https scheme and MAY contain port, path, and query parameter components.

Validation

Process intended to establish the soundness or correctness of a construct.

Verification

Process intended to test or prove the truth or accuracy of a fact or value.

Voluntary Claim

Claim specified by the Client as being useful but not Essential for the specific task requested by the End-User.

IMPORTANT NOTE TO READERS: The terminology definitions in this section are a normative portion of this specification, imposing requirements upon implementations. All the capitalized words in the text of this specification, such as "Issuer Identifier", reference these defined terms. Whenever the reader encounters them, their definitions found in this section must be followed.

For more background on some of the terminology used, see Internet Security Glossary, Version 2 (Shirey, R., “Internet Security Glossary, Version 2,” August 2007.) [RFC4949],ISO/IEC 29115 Entity Authentication Assurance (International Organization for Standardization, “ISO/IEC 29115:2013. Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication assurance framework,” April 2013.) [ISO29115], and ITU-T X.1252 (International Telecommunication Union, “ITU-T Recommendation X.1252 - Cyberspace security - Identity management - Baseline identity management terms and definitions,” April 2010.) [X.1252].

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1.3. Overview

The OpenID Connect protocol, in abstract, follows the following steps.

1. The RP (Client) sends a request to the OpenID Provider (OP).
2. The OP authenticates the End-User and obtains authorization.
3. The OP responds with an ID Token and usually an Access Token.
4. The RP can send a request with the Access Token to the UserInfo Endpoint.
5. The UserInfo Endpoint returns Claims about the End-User.

These steps are illustrated in the following diagram:

+--------+ +--------+ | | | | | |---------(1) AuthN Request-------->| | | | | | | | +--------+ | | | | | | | | | | | End- |<--(2) AuthN & AuthZ-->| | | | | User | | | | RP | | | | OP | | | +--------+ | | | | | | | |<--------(3) AuthN Response--------| | | | | | | |---------(4) UserInfo Request----->| | | | | | | |<--------(5) UserInfo Response-----| | | | | | +--------+ +--------+

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2. ID Token

The primary extension that OpenID Connect makes to OAuth 2.0 to enable End-Users to be Authenticated is the ID Token data structure. The ID Token is a security token that contains Claims about the Authentication of an End-User by an Authorization Server when using a Client, and potentially other requested Claims. The ID Token is represented as aJSON Web Token (JWT) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT].

The following Claims are used within the ID Token for all OAuth 2.0 flows used by OpenID Connect:

iss

REQUIRED. Issuer Identifier for the Issuer of the response. The iss value is a case-sensitive URL using the https scheme that contains scheme, host, and optionally, port number and path components and no query or fragment components.

sub

REQUIRED. Subject Identifier. A locally unique and never reassigned identifier within the Issuer for the End-User, which is intended to be consumed by the Client, e.g., 24400320 or AItOawmwtWwcT0k51BayewNvutrJUqsvl6qs7A4. It MUST NOT exceed 255 ASCII [RFC20] (Cerf, V., “ASCII format for Network Interchange,” October 1969.) characters in length. The sub value is a case-sensitive string.

aud

REQUIRED. Audience(s) that this ID Token is intended for. It MUST contain the OAuth 2.0 client_id of the Relying Party as an audience value. It MAY also contain identifiers for other audiences. In the general case, the aud value is an array of case-sensitive strings. In the common special case when there is one audience, the aud value MAY be a single case-sensitive string.

exp

REQUIRED. Expiration time on or after which the ID Token MUST NOT be accepted by the RP when performing authentication with the OP. The processing of this parameter requires that the current date/time MUST be before the expiration date/time listed in the value. Implementers MAY provide for some small leeway, usually no more than a few minutes, to account for clock skew. Its value is a JSON [RFC8259] (Bray, T., Ed., “The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Data Interchange Format,” December 2017.) number representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z as measured in UTC until the date/time. See RFC 3339 (Klyne, G. and C. Newman, “Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps,” July 2002.) [RFC3339] for details regarding date/times in general and UTC in particular. NOTE: The ID Token expiration time is unrelated the lifetime of the authenticated session between the RP and the OP.

iat

REQUIRED. Time at which the JWT was issued. Its value is a JSON number representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z as measured in UTC until the date/time.

auth_time

Time when the End-User authentication occurred. Its value is a JSON number representing the number of seconds from 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z as measured in UTC until the date/time. When a max_age request is made or when auth_time is requested as an Essential Claim, then this Claim is REQUIRED; otherwise, its inclusion is OPTIONAL. (The auth_time Claim semantically corresponds to the OpenID 2.0 PAPE (Recordon, D., Jones, M., Bufu, J., Ed., Daugherty, J., Ed., and N. Sakimura, “OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0,” December 2008.) [OpenID.PAPE]auth_time response parameter.)

nonce

String value used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. The value is passed through unmodified from the Authentication Request to the ID Token. If present in the ID Token, Clients MUST verify that the nonce Claim Value is equal to the value of the nonce parameter sent in the Authentication Request. If present in the Authentication Request, Authorization Servers MUST include a nonce Claim in the ID Token with the Claim Value being the nonce value sent in the Authentication Request. Authorization Servers SHOULD perform no other processing on nonce values used. The nonce value is a case-sensitive string.

acr

OPTIONAL. Authentication Context Class Reference. String specifying an Authentication Context Class Reference value that identifies the Authentication Context Class that the authentication performed satisfied. The value "0" indicates the End-User authentication did not meet the requirements ofISO/IEC 29115 (International Organization for Standardization, “ISO/IEC 29115:2013. Information technology - Security techniques - Entity authentication assurance framework,” April 2013.) [ISO29115] level 1. For historic reasons, the value "0" is used to indicate that there is no confidence that the same person is actually there. Authentications with level 0 SHOULD NOT be used to authorize access to any resource of any monetary value. (This corresponds to the OpenID 2.0PAPE (Recordon, D., Jones, M., Bufu, J., Ed., Daugherty, J., Ed., and N. Sakimura, “OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0,” December 2008.) [OpenID.PAPE]nist_auth_level 0.) An absolute URI or an RFC 6711 (Johansson, L., “An IANA Registry for Level of Assurance (LoA) Profiles,” August 2012.) [RFC6711] registered name SHOULD be used as the acr value; registered names MUST NOT be used with a different meaning than that which is registered. Parties using this claim will need to agree upon the meanings of the values used, which may be context specific. The acr value is a case-sensitive string.

amr

OPTIONAL. Authentication Methods References. JSON array of strings that are identifiers for authentication methods used in the authentication. For instance, values might indicate that both password and OTP authentication methods were used. The amr value is an array of case-sensitive strings. Values used in theamr Claim SHOULD be from those registered in the IANA Authentication Method Reference Values registry [IANA.AMR] (IANA, “Authentication Method Reference Values,” .) established by [RFC8176] (Jones, M., Hunt, P., and A. Nadalin, “Authentication Method Reference Values,” June 2017.); parties using this claim will need to agree upon the meanings of any unregistered values used, which may be context specific.

azp

OPTIONAL. Authorized party - the party to which the ID Token was issued. If present, it MUST contain the OAuth 2.0 Client ID of this party. The azp value is a case-sensitive string containing a StringOrURI value. Note that in practice, the azp Claim only occurs when extensions beyond the scope of this specification are used; therefore, implementations not using such extensions are encouraged to not use azp and to ignore it when it does occur.

ID Tokens MAY contain other Claims. Any Claims used that are not understood MUST be ignored. See Sections3.1.3.6 (ID Token),3.3.2.11 (ID Token),5.1 (Standard Claims), and7.4 (Self-Issued OpenID Provider Response) for additional Claims defined by this specification.

ID Tokens MUST be signed using JWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] and optionally both signed and then encrypted using JWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] and JWE (Jones, M. and J. Hildebrand, “JSON Web Encryption (JWE),” May 2015.) [JWE] respectively, thereby providing authentication, integrity, non-repudiation, and optionally, confidentiality, per Section 16.14 (Signing and Encryption Order). If the ID Token is encrypted, it MUST be signed then encrypted, with the result being a Nested JWT, as defined in [JWT] (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.). ID Tokens MUST NOT use none as the alg value unless the Response Type used returns no ID Token from the Authorization Endpoint (such as when using the Authorization Code Flow) and the Client explicitly requested the use ofnone at Registration time.

ID Tokens SHOULD NOT use the JWS or JWEx5u,x5c,jku, orjwk Header Parameter fields. Instead, references to keys used are communicated in advance using Discovery and Registration parameters, per Section 10 (Signatures and Encryption).

The following is a non-normative example of the set of Claims (the JWT Claims Set) in an ID Token:

{ "iss": "https://server.example.com", "sub": "24400320", "aud": "s6BhdRkqt3", "nonce": "n-0S6_WzA2Mj", "exp": 1311281970, "iat": 1311280970, "auth_time": 1311280969, "acr": "urn:mace:incommon:iap:silver" }

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3. Authentication

OpenID Connect performs authentication to log in the End-User or to determine that the End-User is already logged in. OpenID Connect returns the result of the Authentication performed by the Server to the Client in a secure manner so that the Client can rely on it. For this reason, the Client is called Relying Party (RP) in this case.

The Authentication result is returned in an ID Token, as defined in Section 2 (ID Token). It has Claims expressing such information as the Issuer, the Subject Identifier, when the authentication was performed, etc.

Authentication can follow one of three paths: the Authorization Code Flow (response_type=code), the Implicit Flow (response_type=id_token token or response_type=id_token), or the Hybrid Flow (using other Response Type values defined inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses]). The flows determine how the ID Token and Access Token are returned to the Client.

The characteristics of the three flows are summarized in the following non-normative table. The table is intended to provide some guidance on which flow to choose in particular contexts.

OpenID Connect Authentication Flows

The flow used is determined by the response_type value contained in the Authorization Request. These response_type values select these flows:

OpenID Connect "response_type" Values

All but the code Response Type value, which is defined by OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], are defined in theOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses] specification. NOTE: While OAuth 2.0 also defines thetoken Response Type value for the Implicit Flow, OpenID Connect does not use this Response Type, since no ID Token would be returned.

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3.1. Authentication using the Authorization Code Flow

This section describes how to perform authentication using the Authorization Code Flow. When using the Authorization Code Flow, all tokens are returned from the Token Endpoint.

The Authorization Code Flow returns an Authorization Code to the Client, which can then exchange it for an ID Token and an Access Token directly. This provides the benefit of not exposing any tokens to the User Agent and possibly other malicious applications with access to the User Agent. The Authorization Server can also authenticate the Client before exchanging the Authorization Code for an Access Token. The Authorization Code flow is suitable for Clients that can securely maintain a Client Secret between themselves and the Authorization Server.

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3.1.1. Authorization Code Flow Steps

The Authorization Code Flow goes through the following steps.

1. Client prepares an Authentication Request containing the desired request parameters.
2. Client sends the request to the Authorization Server.
3. Authorization Server Authenticates the End-User.
4. Authorization Server obtains End-User Consent/Authorization.
5. Authorization Server sends the End-User back to the Client with an Authorization Code.
6. Client requests a response using the Authorization Code at the Token Endpoint.
7. Client receives a response that contains an ID Token and Access Token in the response body.
8. Client validates the ID token and retrieves the End-User's Subject Identifier.

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3.1.2. Authorization Endpoint

The Authorization Endpoint performs Authentication of the End-User. This is done by sending the User Agent to the Authorization Server's Authorization Endpoint for Authentication and Authorization, using request parameters defined by OAuth 2.0 and additional parameters and parameter values defined by OpenID Connect.

Communication with the Authorization Endpoint MUST utilize TLS. See Section 16.17 (TLS Requirements) for more information on using TLS.

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3.1.2.1. Authentication Request

An Authentication Request is an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request that requests that the End-User be authenticated by the Authorization Server.

Authorization Servers MUST support the use of the HTTP GET andPOST methods defined in RFC 7231 (Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content,” June 2014.) [RFC7231] at the Authorization Endpoint. Clients MAY use the HTTP GET orPOST methods to send the Authorization Request to the Authorization Server. If using the HTTPGET method, the request parameters are serialized using URI Query String Serialization, per Section 13.1 (Query String Serialization). If using the HTTP POST method, the request parameters are serialized using Form Serialization, per Section 13.2 (Form Serialization).

OpenID Connect uses the following OAuth 2.0 request parameters with the Authorization Code Flow:

scope

REQUIRED. OpenID Connect requests MUST contain the openid scope value. If the openid scope value is not present, the behavior is entirely unspecified. Other scope values MAY be present. Scope values used that are not understood by an implementation SHOULD be ignored. See Sections 5.4 (Requesting Claims using Scope Values) and 11 (Offline Access) for additional scope values defined by this specification.

response_type

REQUIRED. OAuth 2.0 Response Type value that determines the authorization processing flow to be used, including what parameters are returned from the endpoints used. When using the Authorization Code Flow, this value iscode.

client_id

REQUIRED. OAuth 2.0 Client Identifier valid at the Authorization Server.

redirect_uri

REQUIRED. Redirection URI to which the response will be sent. This URI MUST exactly match one of the Redirection URI values for the Client pre-registered at the OpenID Provider, with the matching performed as described in Section 6.2.1 of [RFC3986] (Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax,” January 2005.) (Simple String Comparison). When using this flow, the Redirection URI SHOULD use the https scheme; however, it MAY use the http scheme, provided that the Client Type isconfidential, as defined in Section 2.1 of OAuth 2.0, and provided the OP allows the use ofhttp Redirection URIs in this case. Also, if the Client is a native application, it MAY use the http scheme withlocalhost or the IP loopback literals127.0.0.1 or [::1] as the hostname. The Redirection URI MAY use an alternate scheme, such as one that is intended to identify a callback into a native application.

state

RECOMMENDED. Opaque value used to maintain state between the request and the callback. Typically, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF, XSRF) mitigation is done by cryptographically binding the value of this parameter with a browser cookie.

OpenID Connect also uses the following OAuth 2.0 request parameter, which is defined inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses]:

response_mode

OPTIONAL. Informs the Authorization Server of the mechanism to be used for returning parameters from the Authorization Endpoint. This use of this parameter is NOT RECOMMENDED when the Response Mode that would be requested is the default mode specified for the Response Type.

This specification also defines the following request parameters:

nonce

OPTIONAL. String value used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. The value is passed through unmodified from the Authentication Request to the ID Token. Sufficient entropy MUST be present in thenonce values used to prevent attackers from guessing values. For implementation notes, see Section 15.5.2 (Nonce Implementation Notes).

display

OPTIONAL. ASCII string value that specifies how the Authorization Server displays the authentication and consent user interface pages to the End-User. The defined values are:

page

The Authorization Server SHOULD display the authentication and consent UI consistent with a full User Agent page view. If the display parameter is not specified, this is the default display mode.

popup

The Authorization Server SHOULD display the authentication and consent UI consistent with a popup User Agent window. The popup User Agent window should be of an appropriate size for a login-focused dialog and should not obscure the entire window that it is popping up over.

touch

The Authorization Server SHOULD display the authentication and consent UI consistent with a device that leverages a touch interface.

wap

The Authorization Server SHOULD display the authentication and consent UI consistent with a "feature phone" type display.

The Authorization Server MAY also attempt to detect the capabilities of the User Agent and present an appropriate display.

If an OP receives a display value outside the set defined above that it does not understand, it MAY return an error or it MAY ignore it; in practice, not returning errors for not-understood values will help facilitate phasing in extensions using newdisplay values.

prompt

OPTIONAL. Space-delimited, case-sensitive list of ASCII string values that specifies whether the Authorization Server prompts the End-User for reauthentication and consent. The defined values are:

none

The Authorization Server MUST NOT display any authentication or consent user interface pages. An error is returned if an End-User is not already authenticated or the Client does not have pre-configured consent for the requested Claims or does not fulfill other conditions for processing the request. The error code will typically belogin_required,interaction_required, or another code defined in Section 3.1.2.6 (Authentication Error Response). This can be used as a method to check for existing authentication and/or consent.

login

The Authorization Server SHOULD prompt the End-User for reauthentication. If it cannot reauthenticate the End-User, it MUST return an error, typically login_required.

consent

The Authorization Server SHOULD prompt the End-User for consent before returning information to the Client. If it cannot obtain consent, it MUST return an error, typically consent_required.

select_account

The Authorization Server SHOULD prompt the End-User to select a user account. This enables an End-User who has multiple accounts at the Authorization Server to select amongst the multiple accounts that they might have current sessions for. If it cannot obtain an account selection choice made by the End-User, it MUST return an error, typically account_selection_required.

The prompt parameter can be used by the Client to make sure that the End-User is still present for the current session or to bring attention to the request. If this parameter contains none with any other value, an error is returned.

If an OP receives a prompt value outside the set defined above that it does not understand, it MAY return an error or it MAY ignore it; in practice, not returning errors for not-understood values will help facilitate phasing in extensions using newprompt values.

max_age

OPTIONAL. Maximum Authentication Age. Specifies the allowable elapsed time in seconds since the last time the End-User was actively authenticated by the OP. If the elapsed time is greater than this value, the OP MUST attempt to actively re-authenticate the End-User. (The max_age request parameter corresponds to the OpenID 2.0 PAPE (Recordon, D., Jones, M., Bufu, J., Ed., Daugherty, J., Ed., and N. Sakimura, “OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension 1.0,” December 2008.) [OpenID.PAPE]max_auth_age request parameter.) When max_age is used, the ID Token returned MUST include an auth_time Claim Value. Note that max_age=0 is equivalent to prompt=login.

ui_locales

OPTIONAL. End-User's preferred languages and scripts for the user interface, represented as a space-separated list ofBCP47 (Phillips, A., Ed. and M. Davis, Ed., “Tags for Identifying Languages,” September 2009.) [RFC5646] language tag values, ordered by preference. For instance, the value "fr-CA fr en" represents a preference for French as spoken in Canada, then French (without a region designation), followed by English (without a region designation). An error SHOULD NOT result if some or all of the requested locales are not supported by the OpenID Provider.

id_token_hint

OPTIONAL. ID Token previously issued by the Authorization Server being passed as a hint about the End-User's current or past authenticated session with the Client. If the End-User identified by the ID Token is already logged in or is logged in as a result of the request (with the OP possibly evaluating other information beyond the ID Token in this decision), then the Authorization Server returns a positive response; otherwise, it MUST return an error, such as login_required. When possible, an id_token_hint SHOULD be present when prompt=none is used and an invalid_request error MAY be returned if it is not; however, the server SHOULD respond successfully when possible, even if it is not present. The Authorization Server need not be listed as an audience of the ID Token when it is used as anid_token_hint value.

If the ID Token received by the RP from the OP is encrypted, to use it as an id_token_hint, the Client MUST decrypt the signed ID Token contained within the encrypted ID Token. The Client MAY re-encrypt the signed ID token to the Authentication Server using a key that enables the server to decrypt the ID Token and use the re-encrypted ID token as theid_token_hint value.

login_hint

OPTIONAL. Hint to the Authorization Server about the login identifier the End-User might use to log in (if necessary). This hint can be used by an RP if it first asks the End-User for their e-mail address (or other identifier) and then wants to pass that value as a hint to the discovered authorization service. It is RECOMMENDED that the hint value match the value used for discovery. This value MAY also be a phone number in the format specified for thephone_number Claim. The use of this parameter is left to the OP's discretion.

acr_values

OPTIONAL. Requested Authentication Context Class Reference values. Space-separated string that specifies the acr values that the Authorization Server is being requested to use for processing this Authentication Request, with the values appearing in order of preference. The Authentication Context Class satisfied by the authentication performed is returned as the acr Claim Value, as specified in Section 2 (ID Token). The acr Claim is requested as a Voluntary Claim by this parameter.

Other parameters MAY be sent. See Sections 3.2.2 (Authorization Endpoint),3.3.2 (Authorization Endpoint),5.2 (Claims Languages and Scripts),5.5 (Requesting Claims using the "claims" Request Parameter),6 (Passing Request Parameters as JWTs), and7.2.1 (Providing Information with the "registration" Request Parameter) for additional Authorization Request parameters and parameter values defined by this specification.

The following is a non-normative example HTTP 302 redirect response by the Client, which triggers the User Agent to make an Authentication Request to the Authorization Endpoint (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://server.example.com/authorize? response_type=code &scope=openid%20profile%20email &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &state=af0ifjsldkj &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb

The following is the non-normative example request that would be sent by the User Agent to the Authorization Server in response to the HTTP 302 redirect response by the Client above (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

GET /authorize? response_type=code &scope=openid%20profile%20email &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &state=af0ifjsldkj &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com

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3.1.2.2. Authentication Request Validation

The Authorization Server MUST validate the request received as follows:

1. The Authorization Server MUST validate all the OAuth 2.0 parameters according to the OAuth 2.0 specification.
2. Verify that a scope parameter is present and contains the openid scope value. (If no openid scope value is present, the request may still be a valid OAuth 2.0 request but is not an OpenID Connect request.)
3. The Authorization Server MUST verify that all the REQUIRED parameters are present and their usage conforms to this specification.
4. If the sub (subject) Claim is requested with a specific value for the ID Token, the Authorization Server MUST only send a positive response if the End-User identified by that sub value has an active session with the Authorization Server or has been Authenticated as a result of the request. The Authorization Server MUST NOT reply with an ID Token or Access Token for a different user, even if they have an active session with the Authorization Server. Such a request can be made either using anid_token_hint parameter or by requesting a specific Claim Value as described in Section 5.5.1 (Individual Claims Requests), if the claims parameter is supported by the implementation.
5. When an id_token_hint is present, the OP MUST validate that it was the issuer of the ID Token. The OP SHOULD accept ID Tokens when the RP identified by the ID Token has a current session or had a recent session at the OP, even when the exp time has passed.

As specified in OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], Authorization Servers SHOULD ignore unrecognized request parameters.

If the Authorization Server encounters any error, it MUST return an error response, per Section 3.1.2.6 (Authentication Error Response).

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3.1.2.3. Authorization Server Authenticates End-User

If the request is valid, the Authorization Server attempts to Authenticate the End-User or determines whether the End-User is Authenticated, depending upon the request parameter values used. The methods used by the Authorization Server to Authenticate the End-User (e.g., username and password, session cookies, etc.) are beyond the scope of this specification. An Authentication user interface MAY be displayed by the Authorization Server, depending upon the request parameter values used and the authentication methods used.

The Authorization Server MUST attempt to Authenticate the End-User in the following cases:

• The End-User is not already Authenticated.
• The Authentication Request contains the prompt parameter with the valuelogin. In this case, the Authorization Server MUST reauthenticate the End-User even if the End-User is already authenticated.

The Authorization Server MUST NOT interact with the End-User in the following case:

• The Authentication Request contains the prompt parameter with the valuenone. In this case, the Authorization Server MUST return an error if an End-User is not already Authenticated or could not be silently Authenticated.

When interacting with the End-User, the Authorization Server MUST employ appropriate measures against Cross-Site Request Forgery and Clickjacking as, described in Sections 10.12 and 10.13 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749].

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3.1.2.4. Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization

Once the End-User is authenticated, the Authorization Server MUST obtain an authorization decision before releasing information to the Relying Party. When permitted by the request parameters used, this MAY be done through an interactive dialogue with the End-User that makes it clear what is being consented to or by establishing consent via conditions for processing the request or other means (for example, via previous administrative consent). Sections 2 (ID Token) and5.3 (UserInfo Endpoint) describe information release mechanisms.

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3.1.2.5. Successful Authentication Response

An Authentication Response is an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Response message returned from the OP's Authorization Endpoint in response to the Authorization Request message sent by the RP.

When using the Authorization Code Flow, the Authorization Response MUST return the parameters defined in Section 4.1.2 ofOAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] by adding them as query parameters to theredirect_uri specified in the Authorization Request using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format, unless a different Response Mode was specified.

The following is a non-normative example successful response using this flow (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://client.example.org/cb? code=SplxlOBeZQQYbYS6WxSbIA &state=af0ifjsldkj

For implementation notes on the contents of the Authorization Code, see Section 15.5.1 (Authorization Code Implementation Notes).

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3.1.2.6. Authentication Error Response

An Authentication Error Response is an OAuth 2.0 Authorization Error Response message returned from the OP's Authorization Endpoint in response to the Authorization Request message sent by the RP.

If the End-User denies the request or the End-User authentication fails, the OP (Authorization Server) informs the RP (Client) by using the Error Response parameters defined in Section 4.1.2.1 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749]. (HTTP errors unrelated to RFC 6749 are returned to the User Agent using the appropriate HTTP status code.)

Unless the Redirection URI is invalid, the Authorization Server returns the Client to the Redirection URI specified in the Authorization Request with the appropriate error and state parameters. Other parameters SHOULD NOT be returned. If the Redirection URI is invalid, the Authorization Server MUST NOT redirect the User Agent to the invalid Redirection URI.

If the Response Mode value is not supported, the Authorization Server returns an HTTP response code of 400 (Bad Request) without Error Response parameters, since understanding the Response Mode is necessary to know how to return those parameters.

In addition to the error codes defined in Section 4.1.2.1 of OAuth 2.0, this specification also defines the following error codes:

interaction_required

The Authorization Server requires End-User interaction of some form to proceed. This error MAY be returned when theprompt parameter value in the Authentication Request is none, but the Authentication Request cannot be completed without displaying a user interface for End-User interaction.

login_required

The Authorization Server requires End-User authentication. This error MAY be returned when theprompt parameter value in the Authentication Request is none, but the Authentication Request cannot be completed without displaying a user interface for End-User authentication.

account_selection_required

The End-User is REQUIRED to select a session at the Authorization Server. The End-User MAY be authenticated at the Authorization Server with different associated accounts, but the End-User did not select a session. This error MAY be returned when the prompt parameter value in the Authentication Request is none, but the Authentication Request cannot be completed without displaying a user interface to prompt for a session to use.

consent_required

The Authorization Server requires End-User consent. This error MAY be returned when theprompt parameter value in the Authentication Request is none, but the Authentication Request cannot be completed without displaying a user interface for End-User consent.

invalid_request_uri

Therequest_uri in the Authorization Request returns an error or contains invalid data.

invalid_request_object

Therequest parameter contains an invalid Request Object.

request_not_supported

The OP does not support use of therequest parameter defined in Section 6 (Passing Request Parameters as JWTs).

request_uri_not_supported

The OP does not support use of therequest_uri parameter defined in Section 6 (Passing Request Parameters as JWTs).

registration_not_supported

The OP does not support use of theregistration parameter defined in Section 7.2.1 (Providing Information with the "registration" Request Parameter).

The error response parameters are the following:

error

REQUIRED. Error code.

error_description

OPTIONAL. Human-readable ASCII encoded text description of the error.

error_uri

OPTIONAL. URI of a web page that includes additional information about the error.

state

OAuth 2.0 state value. REQUIRED if the Authorization Request included the state parameter. Set to the value received from the Client.

When using the Authorization Code Flow, the error response parameters are added to the query component of the Redirection URI, unless a different Response Mode was specified.

The following is a non-normative example error response using this flow (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://client.example.org/cb? error=invalid_request &error_description= Unsupported%20response_type%20value &state=af0ifjsldkj

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3.1.2.7. Authentication Response Validation

When using the Authorization Code Flow, the Client MUST validate the response according to RFC 6749, especially Sections 4.1.2 and 10.12.

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3.1.3. Token Endpoint

To obtain an Access Token, an ID Token, and optionally a Refresh Token, the RP (Client) sends a Token Request to the Token Endpoint to obtain a Token Response, as described in Section 3.2 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], when using the Authorization Code Flow.

Communication with the Token Endpoint MUST utilize TLS. See Section 16.17 (TLS Requirements) for more information on using TLS.

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3.1.3.1. Token Request

A Client makes a Token Request by presenting its Authorization Grant (in the form of an Authorization Code) to the Token Endpoint using the grant_type valueauthorization_code, as described in Section 4.1.3 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749]. If the Client is a Confidential Client, then it MUST authenticate to the Token Endpoint using the authentication method registered for its client_id, as described in Section 9 (Client Authentication).

The Client sends the parameters to the Token Endpoint using the HTTP POST method and the Form Serialization, per Section 13.2 (Form Serialization), as described in Section 4.1.3 ofOAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749].

The following is a non-normative example of a Token Request (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

POST /token HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Authorization: Basic czZCaGRSa3F0MzpnWDFmQmF0M2JW

grant_type=authorization_code&code=SplxlOBeZQQYbYS6WxSbIA &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb

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3.1.3.2. Token Request Validation

The Authorization Server MUST validate the Token Request as follows:

• Authenticate the Client if it was issued Client Credentials or if it uses another Client Authentication method, per Section 9 (Client Authentication).
• Ensure the Authorization Code was issued to the authenticated Client.
• Verify that the Authorization Code is valid.
• If possible, verify that the Authorization Code has not been previously used.
• Ensure that theredirect_uri parameter value is identical to the redirect_uri parameter value that was included in the initial Authorization Request. If the redirect_uri parameter value is not present when there is only one registeredredirect_uri value, the Authorization Server MAY return an error (since the Client should have included the parameter) or MAY proceed without an error (since OAuth 2.0 permits the parameter to be omitted in this case).
• Verify that the Authorization Code used was issued in response to an OpenID Connect Authentication Request (so that an ID Token will be returned from the Token Endpoint).

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3.1.3.3. Successful Token Response

After receiving and validating a valid and authorized Token Request from the Client, the Authorization Server returns a successful response that includes an ID Token and an Access Token. The parameters in the successful response are defined in Section 4.1.4 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749]. The response uses the application/json media type.

The OAuth 2.0 token_type response parameter value MUST be Bearer, as specified in OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750], unless another Token Type has been negotiated with the Client. Servers SHOULD support the Bearer Token Type; use of other Token Types is outside the scope of this specification. Note that the token_type value is case insensitive.

In addition to the response parameters specified by OAuth 2.0, the following parameters MUST be included in the response:

id_token

ID Token value associated with the authenticated session.

All Token Responses that contain tokens, secrets, or other sensitive information MUST include the following HTTP response header fields and values:

HTTP Response Headers and Values

The following is a non-normative example of a successful Token Response. The ID Token signature in the example can be verified with the key atAppendix A.7 (RSA Key Used in Examples).

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Cache-Control: no-store

{ "access_token": "SlAV32hkKG", "token_type": "Bearer", "refresh_token": "8xLOxBtZp8", "expires_in": 3600, "id_token": "eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6IjFlOWdkazcifQ.ewogImlzc yI6ICJodHRwOi8vc2VydmVyLmV4YW1wbGUuY29tIiwKICJzdWIiOiAiMjQ4Mjg5 NzYxMDAxIiwKICJhdWQiOiAiczZCaGRSa3F0MyIsCiAibm9uY2UiOiAibi0wUzZ fV3pBMk1qIiwKICJleHAiOiAxMzExMjgxOTcwLAogImlhdCI6IDEzMTEyODA5Nz AKfQ.ggW8hZ1EuVLuxNuuIJKX_V8a_OMXzR0EHR9R6jgdqrOOF4daGU96Sr_P6q Jp6IcmD3HP99Obi1PRs-cwh3LO-p146waJ8IhehcwL7F09JdijmBqkvPeB2T9CJ NqeGpe-gccMg4vfKjkM8FcGvnzZUN4_KSP0aAp1tOJ1zZwgjxqGByKHiOtX7Tpd QyHE5lcMiKPXfEIQILVq0pc_E2DzL7emopWoaoZTF_m0_N0YzFC6g6EJbOEoRoS K5hoDalrcvRYLSrQAZZKflyuVCyixEoV9GfNQC3_osjzw2PAithfubEEBLuVVk4 XUVrWOLrLl0nx7RkKU8NXNHq-rvKMzqg" }

As specified in OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], Clients SHOULD ignore unrecognized response parameters.

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3.1.3.4. Token Error Response

If the Token Request is invalid or unauthorized, the Authorization Server constructs the error response. The parameters of the Token Error Response are defined as in Section 5.2 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749]. The HTTP response body uses the application/json media type with HTTP response code of 400.

The following is a non-normative example Token Error Response:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Content-Type: application/json Cache-Control: no-store

{ "error": "invalid_request" }

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3.1.3.5. Token Response Validation

The Client MUST validate the Token Response as follows:

1. Follow the validation rules in RFC 6749, especially those in Sections 5.1 and 10.12.
2. Follow the ID Token validation rules in Section 3.1.3.7 (ID Token Validation).
3. Follow the Access Token validation rules in Section 3.1.3.8 (Access Token Validation).

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3.1.3.6. ID Token

The contents of the ID Token are as described in Section 2 (ID Token). When using the Authorization Code Flow, these additional requirements for the following ID Token Claims apply:

at_hash

OPTIONAL. Access Token hash value. Its value is the base64url encoding of the left-most half of the hash of the octets of the ASCII representation of theaccess_token value, where the hash algorithm used is the hash algorithm used in the alg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isRS256, hash theaccess_token value with SHA-256, then take the left-most 128 bits and base64url-encode them. The at_hash value is a case-sensitive string.

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3.1.3.7. ID Token Validation

Clients MUST validate the ID Token in the Token Response in the following manner:

1. If the ID Token is encrypted, decrypt it using the keys and algorithms that the Client specified during Registration that the OP was to use to encrypt the ID Token. If encryption was negotiated with the OP at Registration time and the ID Token is not encrypted, the RP SHOULD reject it.
2. The Issuer Identifier for the OpenID Provider (which is typically obtained during Discovery) MUST exactly match the value of theiss (issuer) Claim.
3. The Client MUST validate that theaud (audience) Claim contains its client_id value registered at the Issuer identified by theiss (issuer) Claim as an audience. The aud (audience) Claim MAY contain an array with more than one element. The ID Token MUST be rejected if the ID Token does not list the Client as a valid audience, or if it contains additional audiences not trusted by the Client.
4. If the implementation is using extensions (which are beyond the scope of this specification) that result in the azp (authorized party) Claim being present, it SHOULD validate the azp value as specified by those extensions.
5. This validation MAY include that when an azp (authorized party) Claim is present, the Client SHOULD verify that its client_id is the Claim Value.
6. If the ID Token is received via direct communication between the Client and the Token Endpoint (which it is in this flow), the TLS server validation MAY be used to validate the issuer in place of checking the token signature. The Client MUST validate the signature of all other ID Tokens according toJWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] using the algorithm specified in the JWT alg Header Parameter. The Client MUST use the keys provided by the Issuer.
7. The alg value SHOULD be the default ofRS256 or the algorithm sent by the Client in the id_token_signed_response_alg parameter during Registration.
8. If the JWT alg Header Parameter uses a MAC based algorithm such asHS256, HS384, or HS512, the octets of the UTF-8 [RFC3629] (Yergeau, F., “UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646,” November 2003.) representation of the client_secret corresponding to theclient_id contained in theaud (audience) Claim are used as the key to validate the signature. For MAC based algorithms, the behavior is unspecified if the aud is multi-valued.
9. The current time MUST be before the time represented by theexp Claim.
10. The iat Claim can be used to reject tokens that were issued too far away from the current time, limiting the amount of time that nonces need to be stored to prevent attacks. The acceptable range is Client specific.
11. If a nonce value was sent in the Authentication Request, a nonce Claim MUST be present and its value checked to verify that it is the same value as the one that was sent in the Authentication Request. The Client SHOULD check the nonce value for replay attacks. The precise method for detecting replay attacks is Client specific.
12. If the acr Claim was requested, the Client SHOULD check that the asserted Claim Value is appropriate. The meaning and processing ofacr Claim Values is out of scope for this specification.
13. If the auth_time Claim was requested, either through a specific request for this Claim or by using the max_age parameter, the Client SHOULD check the auth_time Claim value and request re-authentication if it determines too much time has elapsed since the last End-User authentication.

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3.1.3.8. Access Token Validation

When using the Authorization Code Flow, if the ID Token contains an at_hash Claim, the Client MAY use it to validate the Access Token in the same manner as for the Implicit Flow, as defined in Section 3.2.2.9 (Access Token Validation), but using the ID Token and Access Token returned from the Token Endpoint.

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3.2. Authentication using the Implicit Flow

This section describes how to perform authentication using the Implicit Flow. When using the Implicit Flow, all tokens are returned from the Authorization Endpoint; the Token Endpoint is not used.

The Implicit Flow is mainly used by Clients implemented in a browser using a scripting language. The Access Token and ID Token are returned directly to the Client, which may expose them to the End-User and applications that have access to the End-User's User Agent. The Authorization Server does not perform Client Authentication.

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3.2.1. Implicit Flow Steps

The Implicit Flow follows the following steps:

1. Client prepares an Authentication Request containing the desired request parameters.
2. Client sends the request to the Authorization Server.
3. Authorization Server Authenticates the End-User.
4. Authorization Server obtains End-User Consent/Authorization.
5. Authorization Server sends the End-User back to the Client with an ID Token and, if requested, an Access Token.
6. Client validates the ID token and retrieves the End-User's Subject Identifier.

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3.2.2. Authorization Endpoint

When using the Implicit Flow, the Authorization Endpoint is used in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

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3.2.2.1. Authentication Request

Authentication Requests are made as defined in Section 3.1.2.1 (Authentication Request), except that these Authentication Request parameters are used as follows:

response_type

REQUIRED. OAuth 2.0 Response Type value that determines the authorization processing flow to be used, including what parameters are returned from the endpoints used. When using the Implicit Flow, this value isid_token token orid_token. The meanings of both of these values are defined inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses]. No Access Token is returned when the value isid_token.

NOTE: While OAuth 2.0 also defines thetoken Response Type value for the Implicit Flow, OpenID Connect does not use this Response Type, since no ID Token would be returned.

redirect_uri

REQUIRED. Redirection URI to which the response will be sent. This URI MUST exactly match one of the Redirection URI values for the Client pre-registered at the OpenID Provider, with the matching performed as described in Section 6.2.1 of [RFC3986] (Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and L. Masinter, “Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax,” January 2005.) (Simple String Comparison). When using this flow, the Redirection URI MUST NOT use the http scheme unless the Client is a native application, in which case it MAY use the http scheme withlocalhost or the IP loopback literals127.0.0.1 or [::1] as the hostname.

nonce

REQUIRED. String value used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. The value is passed through unmodified from the Authentication Request to the ID Token. Sufficient entropy MUST be present in thenonce values used to prevent attackers from guessing values. For implementation notes, see Section 15.5.2 (Nonce Implementation Notes).

The following is a non-normative example request using the Implicit Flow that would be sent by the User Agent to the Authorization Server in response to a corresponding HTTP 302 redirect response by the Client (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

GET /authorize? response_type=id_token%20token &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb &scope=openid%20profile &state=af0ifjsldkj &nonce=n-0S6_WzA2Mj HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com

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3.2.2.2. Authentication Request Validation

When using the Implicit Flow, the Authentication Request is validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation).

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3.2.2.3. Authorization Server Authenticates End-User

When using the Implicit Flow, End-User Authentication is performed in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.3 (Authorization Server Authenticates End-User).

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3.2.2.4. Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization

When using the Implicit Flow, End-User Consent is obtained in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.4 (Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization).

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3.2.2.5. Successful Authentication Response

When using the Implicit Flow, Authentication Responses are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.5 (Successful Authentication Response), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

When using the Implicit Flow, all response parameters are added to the fragment component of the Redirection URI, as specified inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses], unless a different Response Mode was specified.

These parameters are returned from the Authorization Endpoint:

access_token

OAuth 2.0 Access Token. This is returned unless the response_type value used isid_token.

token_type

OAuth 2.0 Token Type value. The value MUST be Bearer or another token_type value that the Client has negotiated with the Authorization Server. Clients implementing this profile MUST support the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750] specification. This profile only describes the use of bearer tokens. This is returned in the same cases asaccess_token is.

id_token

REQUIRED. ID Token.

state

OAuth 2.0 state value. REQUIRED if thestate parameter is present in the Authorization Request. Clients MUST verify that thestate value is equal to the value of state parameter in the Authorization Request.

expires_in

OPTIONAL. Expiration time of the Access Token in seconds since the response was generated.

Per Section 4.2.2 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], no code result is returned when using the Implicit Flow.

The following is a non-normative example of a successful response using the Implicit Flow (with line wraps for the display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://client.example.org/cb# access_token=SlAV32hkKG &token_type=bearer &id_token=eyJ0 ... NiJ9.eyJ1c ... I6IjIifX0.DeWt4Qu ... ZXso &expires_in=3600 &state=af0ifjsldkj

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3.2.2.6. Authentication Error Response

When using the Implicit Flow, Authorization Error Responses are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.6 (Authentication Error Response), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

Whenever Error Response parameters are returned, such as when End-User denies the authorization or the End-User authentication fails, the Authorization Server MUST return the error Authorization Response in the fragment component of the Redirection URI, as defined in Section 4.2.2.1 ofOAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] andOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses], unless a different Response Mode was specified.

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3.2.2.7. Redirect URI Fragment Handling

Since response parameters are returned in the Redirection URI fragment value, the Client needs to have the User Agent parse the fragment encoded values and pass them to on to the Client's processing logic for consumption. See Section 15.5.3 (Redirect URI Fragment Handling Implementation Notes) for implementation notes on URI fragment handling.

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3.2.2.8. Authentication Response Validation

When using the Implicit Flow, the Client MUST validate the response as follows:

1. Verify that the response conforms to Section 5 of[OAuth.Responses] (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.).
2. Follow the validation rules in RFC 6749, especially those in Sections 4.2.2 and 10.12.
3. Follow the ID Token validation rules in Section 3.2.2.11 (ID Token Validation).
4. Follow the Access Token validation rules in Section 3.2.2.9 (Access Token Validation), unless the response_type value used isid_token.

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3.2.2.9. Access Token Validation

To validate an Access Token issued from the Authorization Endpoint with an ID Token, the Client SHOULD do the following:

1. Hash the octets of the ASCII representation of the access_token with the hash algorithm specified in JWA (Jones, M., “JSON Web Algorithms (JWA),” May 2015.) [JWA] for thealg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isRS256, the hash algorithm used is SHA-256.
2. Take the left-most half of the hash and base64url-encode it.
3. The value of at_hash in the ID Token MUST match the value produced in the previous step.

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3.2.2.10. ID Token

The contents of the ID Token are as described in Section 2 (ID Token). When using the Implicit Flow, these additional requirements for the following ID Token Claims apply:

nonce

Use of the nonce Claim is REQUIRED for this flow.

at_hash

Access Token hash value. Its value is the base64url encoding of the left-most half of the hash of the octets of the ASCII representation of theaccess_token value, where the hash algorithm used is the hash algorithm used in the alg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isRS256, hash theaccess_token value with SHA-256, then take the left-most 128 bits and base64url-encode them. The at_hash value is a case-sensitive string.

If the ID Token is issued from the Authorization Endpoint with anaccess_token value, which is the case for the response_type valueid_token token, this is REQUIRED; it MAY NOT be used when no Access Token is issued, which is the case for the response_type valueid_token.

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3.2.2.11. ID Token Validation

When using the Implicit Flow, the contents of the ID Token MUST be validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.7 (ID Token Validation), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

1. The Client MUST validate the signature of the ID Token according toJWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] using the algorithm specified in thealg Header Parameter of the JOSE Header.
2. The value of the nonce Claim MUST be checked to verify that it is the same value as the one that was sent in the Authentication Request. The Client SHOULD check the nonce value for replay attacks. The precise method for detecting replay attacks is Client specific.

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3.3. Authentication using the Hybrid Flow

This section describes how to perform authentication using the Hybrid Flow. When using the Hybrid Flow, some tokens are returned from the Authorization Endpoint and others are returned from the Token Endpoint. The mechanisms for returning tokens in the Hybrid Flow are specified inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses].

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3.3.1. Hybrid Flow Steps

The Hybrid Flow follows the following steps:

1. Client prepares an Authentication Request containing the desired request parameters.
2. Client sends the request to the Authorization Server.
3. Authorization Server Authenticates the End-User.
4. Authorization Server obtains End-User Consent/Authorization.
5. Authorization Server sends the End-User back to the Client with an Authorization Code and, depending on the Response Type, one or more additional parameters.
6. Client requests a response using the Authorization Code at the Token Endpoint.
7. Client receives a response that contains an ID Token and Access Token in the response body.
8. Client validates the ID Token and retrieves the End-User's Subject Identifier.

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3.3.2. Authorization Endpoint

When using the Hybrid Flow, the Authorization Endpoint is used in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

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3.3.2.1. Authentication Request

Authentication Requests are made as defined in Section 3.1.2.1 (Authentication Request), except that these Authentication Request parameters are used as follows:

response_type

REQUIRED. OAuth 2.0 Response Type value that determines the authorization processing flow to be used, including what parameters are returned from the endpoints used. When using the Hybrid Flow, this value iscode id_token,code token, orcode id_token token. The meanings of these values are defined inOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses].

nonce

REQUIRED if the Response Type of the request is code id_token or code id_token token and OPTIONAL when the Response Type of the request is code token. It is a string value used to associate a Client session with an ID Token, and to mitigate replay attacks. The value is passed through unmodified from the Authentication Request to the ID Token. Sufficient entropy MUST be present in thenonce values used to prevent attackers from guessing values. For implementation notes, see Section 15.5.2 (Nonce Implementation Notes).

The following is a non-normative example request using the Hybrid Flow that would be sent by the User Agent to the Authorization Server in response to a corresponding HTTP 302 redirect response by the Client (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

GET /authorize? response_type=code%20id_token &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb &scope=openid%20profile%20email &nonce=n-0S6_WzA2Mj &state=af0ifjsldkj HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com

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3.3.2.2. Authentication Request Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, the Authentication Request is validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation).

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3.3.2.3. Authorization Server Authenticates End-User

When using the Hybrid Flow, End-User Authentication is performed in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.3 (Authorization Server Authenticates End-User).

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3.3.2.4. Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization

When using the Hybrid Flow, End-User Consent is obtained in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.4 (Authorization Server Obtains End-User Consent/Authorization).

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3.3.2.5. Successful Authentication Response

When using the Hybrid Flow, Authentication Responses are made in the same manner as for the Implicit Flow, as defined in Section 3.2.2.5 (Successful Authentication Response), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

These Authorization Endpoint results are used in the following manner:

access_token

OAuth 2.0 Access Token. This is returned when the response_type value used iscode token, or code id_token token. (A token_type value is also returned in the same cases.)

id_token

ID Token. This is returned when the response_type value used iscode id_token orcode id_token token.

code

Authorization Code. This is always returned when using the Hybrid Flow.

The following is a non-normative example of a successful response using the Hybrid Flow (with line wraps for the display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: https://client.example.org/cb# code=SplxlOBeZQQYbYS6WxSbIA &id_token=eyJ0 ... NiJ9.eyJ1c ... I6IjIifX0.DeWt4Qu ... ZXso &state=af0ifjsldkj

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3.3.2.6. Authentication Error Response

When using the Hybrid Flow, Authorization Error Responses are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.2.6 (Authentication Error Response), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

Whenever Error Response parameters are returned, such as when End-User denies the authorization or the End-User authentication fails, the Authorization Server MUST return the error Authorization Response in the fragment component of the Redirection URI, as defined in Section 4.2.2.1 ofOAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] andOAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.) [OAuth.Responses], unless a different Response Mode was specified.

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3.3.2.7. Redirect URI Fragment Handling

When using the Hybrid Flow, the same requirements for Redirection URI fragment parameter handling apply as do for the Implicit Flow, as defined in Section 3.2.2.7 (Redirect URI Fragment Handling). Also see Section 15.5.3 (Redirect URI Fragment Handling Implementation Notes) for implementation notes on URI fragment handling.

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3.3.2.8. Authentication Response Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, the Client MUST validate the response as follows:

1. Verify that the response conforms to Section 5 of[OAuth.Responses] (de Medeiros, B., Ed., Scurtescu, M., Tarjan, P., and M. Jones, “OAuth 2.0 Multiple Response Type Encoding Practices,” February 2014.).
2. Follow the validation rules in RFC 6749, especially those in Sections 4.2.2 and 10.12.
3. Follow the ID Token validation rules in Section 3.3.2.12 (ID Token Validation) when the response_type value used iscode id_token orcode id_token token.
4. Follow the Access Token validation rules in Section 3.3.2.9 (Access Token Validation) when the response_type value used iscode token orcode id_token token.
5. Follow the Authorization Code validation rules in Section 3.3.2.10 (Authorization Code Validation) when the response_type value used iscode id_token orcode id_token token.

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3.3.2.9. Access Token Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, Access Tokens returned from the Authorization Endpoint are validated in the same manner as for the Implicit Flow, as defined in Section 3.2.2.9 (Access Token Validation).

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3.3.2.10. Authorization Code Validation

To validate an Authorization Code issued from the Authorization Endpoint with an ID Token, the Client SHOULD do the following:

1. Hash the octets of the ASCII representation of the code with the hash algorithm specified in JWA (Jones, M., “JSON Web Algorithms (JWA),” May 2015.) [JWA] for thealg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isRS256, the hash algorithm used is SHA-256.
2. Take the left-most half of the hash and base64url-encode it.
3. The value of c_hash in the ID Token MUST match the value produced in the previous step if c_hash is present in the ID Token.

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3.3.2.11. ID Token

The contents of the ID Token are as described in Section 2 (ID Token). When using the Hybrid Flow, these additional requirements for the following ID Token Claims apply to an ID Token returned from the Authorization Endpoint:

nonce

If a nonce parameter is present in the Authentication Request, Authorization Servers MUST include a nonce Claim in the ID Token.

at_hash

Access Token hash value. Its value is the base64url encoding of the left-most half of the hash of the octets of the ASCII representation of theaccess_token value, where the hash algorithm used is the hash algorithm used in the alg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isRS256, hash theaccess_token value with SHA-256, then take the left-most 128 bits and base64url-encode them. The at_hash value is a case-sensitive string.

If the ID Token is issued from the Authorization Endpoint with anaccess_token value, which is the case for the response_type valuecode id_token token, this is REQUIRED; otherwise, its inclusion is OPTIONAL.

c_hash

Code hash value. Its value is the base64url encoding of the left-most half of the hash of the octets of the ASCII representation of thecode value, where the hash algorithm used is the hash algorithm used in the alg Header Parameter of the ID Token's JOSE Header. For instance, if the alg isHS512, hash thecode value with SHA-512, then take the left-most 256 bits and base64url-encode them. The c_hash value is a case-sensitive string.

If the ID Token is issued from the Authorization Endpoint with acode, which is the case for the response_type valuescode id_token andcode id_token token, this is REQUIRED; otherwise, its inclusion is OPTIONAL.

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3.3.2.12. ID Token Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, the contents of an ID Token returned from the Authorization Endpoint MUST be validated in the same manner as for the Implicit Flow, as defined in Section 3.2.2.11 (ID Token Validation).

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3.3.3. Token Endpoint

When using the Hybrid Flow, the Token Endpoint is used in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3 (Token Endpoint), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

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3.3.3.1. Token Request

When using the Hybrid Flow, Token Requests are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.1 (Token Request).

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3.3.3.2. Token Request Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, Token Requests are validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.2 (Token Request Validation).

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3.3.3.3. Successful Token Response

When using the Hybrid Flow, Token Responses are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.3 (Successful Token Response).

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3.3.3.4. Token Error Response

When using the Hybrid Flow, Token Error Responses are made in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.4 (Token Error Response).

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3.3.3.5. Token Response Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, Token Responses are validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.5 (Token Response Validation).

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3.3.3.6. ID Token

When using the Hybrid Flow, the contents of an ID Token returned from the Token Endpoint are the same as for an ID Token returned from the Authorization Endpoint, as defined in Section 3.3.2.11 (ID Token), with the exception of the differences specified in this section.

If an ID Token is returned from both the Authorization Endpoint and from the Token Endpoint, which is the case for the response_type valuescode id_token andcode id_token token, the iss and sub Claim Values MUST be identical in both ID Tokens. All Claims about the Authentication event present in either SHOULD be present in both. If either ID Token contains Claims about the End-User, any that are present in both SHOULD have the same values in both. Note that the OP MAY choose to return fewer Claims about the End-User from the Authorization Endpoint, for instance, for privacy reasons. The at_hash and c_hash Claims MAY be omitted from the ID Token returned from the Token Endpoint even when these Claims are present in the ID Token returned from the Authorization Endpoint, because the ID Token and Access Token values returned from the Token Endpoint are already cryptographically bound together by the TLS encryption performed by the Token Endpoint.

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3.3.3.7. ID Token Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, the contents of an ID Token returned from the Token Endpoint MUST be validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.7 (ID Token Validation).

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3.3.3.8. Access Token

If an Access Token is returned from both the Authorization Endpoint and from the Token Endpoint, which is the case for the response_type valuescode token andcode id_token token, their values MAY be the same or they MAY be different. Note that different Access Tokens might be returned be due to the different security characteristics of the two endpoints and the lifetimes and the access to resources granted by them might also be different.

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3.3.3.9. Access Token Validation

When using the Hybrid Flow, the Access Token returned from the Token Endpoint is validated in the same manner as for the Authorization Code Flow, as defined in Section 3.1.3.8 (Access Token Validation).

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4. Initiating Login from a Third Party

In some cases, the login flow is initiated by an OpenID Provider or another party, rather than the Relying Party. In this case, the initiator redirects to the RP at its login initiation endpoint, which requests that the RP send an Authentication Request to a specified OP. Note that this login initiation endpoint can be a different page at the RP than the RP's default landing page. RPs supportingOpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration] register this endpoint value using theinitiate_login_uri Registration parameter.

The party initiating the login request does so by redirecting to the login initiation endpoint at the RP, passing the following parameters:

iss

REQUIRED. Issuer Identifier for the OP that the RP is to send the Authentication Request to. Its value MUST be a URL using the https scheme.

login_hint

OPTIONAL. Hint to the Authorization Server about the End-User to be authenticated. The meaning of this string-valued parameter is left to the OP's discretion. In common use cases, the value will contain an e-mail address, phone number, or username collected by the RP before requesting authentication at the OP. For example, this hint can be used by an RP after it asks the End-User for their e-mail address (or other identifier), passing that identifier as a hint to the OpenID Provider. It is RECOMMENDED that the hint value match the value provided for discovery. Other uses MAY include using the sub claim from the ID Token as the hint value or potentially other kinds of information about the requested authentication.

target_link_uri

OPTIONAL. URL that the RP is requested to redirect to after authentication. RPs MUST verify the value of thetarget_link_uri to prevent being used as an open redirector to external sites.

The parameters can either be passed as query parameters using the HTTP GET method or be passed as HTML form values that are auto-submitted in the User Agent, and thus are transmitted via the HTTP POST method.

Other parameters MAY be sent, if defined by extensions. Any parameters used that are not understood MUST be ignored by the Client.

Clients SHOULD employ frame busting and other techniques to prevent End-Users from being logged in by third party sites without their knowledge through attacks such as Clickjacking. Refer to Section 4.4.1.9 of [RFC6819] (Lodderstedt, T., Ed., McGloin, M., and P. Hunt, “OAuth 2.0 Threat Model and Security Considerations,” January 2013.) for more details.

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5. Claims

This section specifies how the Client can obtain Claims about the End-User and the Authentication event. It also defines a standard set of basic profile Claims. Pre-defined sets of Claims can be requested using specific scope values or individual Claims can be requested using theclaims request parameter. The Claims can come directly from the OpenID Provider or from distributed sources as well.

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5.1. Standard Claims

This specification defines a set of standard Claims. They can be requested to be returned either in the UserInfo Response, per Section 5.3.2 (Successful UserInfo Response), or in the ID Token, per Section 2 (ID Token).

Table 1: Registered Member Definitions

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5.1.1. Address Claim

The Address Claim represents a physical mailing address. Implementations MAY return only a subset of the fields of an address, depending upon the information available and the End-User's privacy preferences. For example, the country and region might be returned without returning more fine-grained address information.

Implementations MAY return just the full address as a single string in the formatted sub-field, or they MAY return just the individual component fields using the other sub-fields, or they MAY return both. If both variants are returned, they SHOULD represent the same address, with the formatted address indicating how the component fields are combined.

All the address values defined below are represented as JSON strings.

formatted

Full mailing address, formatted for display or use on a mailing label. This field MAY contain multiple lines, separated by newlines. Newlines can be represented either as a carriage return/line feed pair ("\r\n") or as a single line feed character ("\n").

street_address

Full street address component, which MAY include house number, street name, Post Office Box, and multi-line extended street address information. This field MAY contain multiple lines, separated by newlines. Newlines can be represented either as a carriage return/line feed pair ("\r\n") or as a single line feed character ("\n").

locality

City or locality component.

region

State, province, prefecture, or region component.

postal_code

Zip code or postal code component.

country

Country name component.

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5.1.2. Additional Claims

While this specification defines only a small set of Claims as standard Claims, other Claims MAY be used in conjunction with the standard Claims. When using such Claims, it is RECOMMENDED that collision-resistant names be used for the Claim Names, as described in theJSON Web Token (JWT) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT] specification. Alternatively, Private Claim Names can be safely used when naming conflicts are unlikely to arise, as described in the JWT specification. Or, if specific additional Claims will have broad and general applicability, they can be registered with Registered Claim Names, per the JWT specification.

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5.2. Claims Languages and Scripts

Human-readable Claim Values and Claim Values that reference human-readable values MAY be represented in multiple languages and scripts. To specify the languages and scripts, BCP47 (Phillips, A., Ed. and M. Davis, Ed., “Tags for Identifying Languages,” September 2009.) [RFC5646] language tags are added to member names, delimited by a # character. For example,family_name#ja-Kana-JP expresses the Family Name in Katakana in Japanese, which is commonly used to index and represent the phonetics of the Kanji representation of the same name represented as family_name#ja-Hani-JP. As another example, both website andwebsite#de Claim Values might be returned, referencing a Web site in an unspecified language and a Web site in German.

Since Claim Names are case sensitive, it is strongly RECOMMENDED that language tag values used in Claim Names be spelled using the character case with which they are registered in the IANA "Language Subtag Registry" [IANA.Language] (IANA, “Language Subtag Registry,” .). In particular, normally language names are spelled with lowercase characters, region names are spelled with uppercase characters, and scripts are spelled with mixed case characters. However, since BCP47 language tag values are case insensitive, implementations SHOULD interpret the language tag values supplied in a case-insensitive manner.

Per the recommendations in BCP47, language tag values for Claims SHOULD only be as specific as necessary. For instance, using fr might be sufficient in many contexts, rather than fr-CA orfr-FR. Where possible, OPs SHOULD try to match requested Claim locales with Claims it has. For instance, if the Client asks for a Claim with a de (German) language tag and the OP has a value tagged with de-CH (Swiss German) and no generic German value, it would be appropriate for the OP to return the Swiss German value to the Client. (This intentionally moves as much of the complexity of language tag matching to the OP as possible, to simplify Clients.)

OpenID Connect defines the following Authorization Request parameter to enable specify the preferred languages and scripts to be used for the returned Claims:

claims_locales

OPTIONAL. End-User's preferred languages and scripts for Claims being returned, represented as a space-separated list ofBCP47 (Phillips, A., Ed. and M. Davis, Ed., “Tags for Identifying Languages,” September 2009.) [RFC5646] language tag values, ordered by preference. An error SHOULD NOT result if some or all of the requested locales are not supported by the OpenID Provider.

When the OP determines, either through theclaims_locales parameter, or by other means, that the End-User and Client are requesting Claims in only one set of languages and scripts, it is RECOMMENDED that OPs return Claims without language tags when they employ this language and script. It is also RECOMMENDED that Clients be written in a manner that they can handle and utilize Claims using language tags.

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5.3. UserInfo Endpoint

The UserInfo Endpoint is an OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource that returns Claims about the authenticated End-User. To obtain the requested Claims about the End-User, the Client makes a request to the UserInfo Endpoint using an Access Token obtained through OpenID Connect Authentication. These Claims are normally represented by a JSON object that contains a collection of name and value pairs for the Claims.

Communication with the UserInfo Endpoint MUST utilize TLS. See Section 16.17 (TLS Requirements) for more information on using TLS.

The UserInfo Endpoint MUST support the use of the HTTP GET and HTTP POST methods defined in RFC 7231 (Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content,” June 2014.) [RFC7231].

The UserInfo Endpoint MUST accept Access Tokens asOAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750].

The UserInfo Endpoint SHOULD support the use ofCross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) (Opera Software ASA, “Cross-Origin Resource Sharing,” July 2010.) [CORS] and/or other methods as appropriate to enable JavaScript Clients and other Browser-Based Clients to access it.

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5.3.1. UserInfo Request

The Client sends the UserInfo Request using either HTTP GET or HTTP POST. The Access Token obtained from an OpenID Connect Authentication Request MUST be sent as a Bearer Token, per Section 2 of OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750].

It is RECOMMENDED that the request use the HTTP GET method and the Access Token be sent using theAuthorization header field.

The following is a non-normative example of a UserInfo Request:

GET /userinfo HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Authorization: Bearer SlAV32hkKG

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5.3.2. Successful UserInfo Response

The UserInfo Claims MUST be returned as the members of a JSON object unless a signed or encrypted response was requested during Client Registration. The Claims defined in Section 5.1 (Standard Claims) can be returned, as can additional Claims not specified there.

For privacy reasons, OpenID Providers MAY elect to not return values for some requested Claims. It is not an error condition to not return a requested Claim.

If a Claim is not returned, that Claim Name SHOULD be omitted from the JSON object representing the Claims; it SHOULD NOT be present with a null or empty string value.

The sub (subject) Claim MUST always be returned in the UserInfo Response.

NOTE: Due to the possibility of token substitution attacks (see Section 16.11 (Token Substitution)), the UserInfo Response is not guaranteed to be about the End-User identified by the sub (subject) element of the ID Token. The sub Claim in the UserInfo Response MUST be verified to exactly match thesub Claim in the ID Token; if they do not match, the UserInfo Response values MUST NOT be used.

Upon receipt of the UserInfo Request, the UserInfo Endpoint MUST return the JSON Serialization of the UserInfo Response as inSection 13.3 (JSON Serialization) in the HTTP response body unless a different format was specified during Registration[OpenID.Registration] (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.). The UserInfo Endpoint MUST return a content-type header to indicate which format is being returned. The content-type of the HTTP response MUST be application/json if the response body is a text JSON object; the response body SHOULD be encoded using UTF-8.

If the UserInfo Response is signed and/or encrypted, then the Claims are returned in a JWT and the content-type MUST be application/jwt. The response MAY be encrypted without also being signed. If both signing and encryption are requested, the response MUST be signed then encrypted, with the result being a Nested JWT, as defined in [JWT] (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.).

If signed, the UserInfo Response MUST contain the Claimsiss (issuer) and aud (audience) as members. The iss value MUST be the OP's Issuer Identifier URL. The aud value MUST be or include the RP's Client ID value.

The following is a non-normative example of a UserInfo Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json

{ "sub": "248289761001", "name": "Jane Doe", "given_name": "Jane", "family_name": "Doe", "preferred_username": "j.doe", "email": "janedoe@example.com", "picture": "http://example.com/janedoe/me.jpg" }

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5.3.3. UserInfo Error Response

When an error condition occurs, the UserInfo Endpoint returns an Error Response as defined in Section 3 ofOAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750]. (HTTP errors unrelated to RFC 6750 are returned to the User Agent using the appropriate HTTP status code.)

The following is a non-normative example of a UserInfo Error Response:

HTTP/1.1 401 Unauthorized WWW-Authenticate: Bearer error="invalid_token", error_description="The Access Token expired"

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5.3.4. UserInfo Response Validation

The Client MUST validate the UserInfo Response as follows:

1. Verify that the OP that responded was the intended OP through a TLS server certificate check, perRFC 6125 (Saint-Andre, P. and J. Hodges, “Representation and Verification of Domain-Based Application Service Identity within Internet Public Key Infrastructure Using X.509 (PKIX) Certificates in the Context of Transport Layer Security (TLS),” March 2011.) [RFC6125].
2. If the Client has provided auserinfo_encrypted_response_alg parameter during Registration, decrypt the UserInfo Response using the keys specified during Registration.
3. If the response was signed, the Client SHOULD validate the signature according to JWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS].

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5.4. Requesting Claims using Scope Values

OpenID Connect Clients use scope values, as defined in Section 3.3 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749], to specify what access privileges are being requested for Access Tokens. The scopes associated with Access Tokens determine what resources will be available when they are used to access OAuth 2.0 protected endpoints. Protected Resource endpoints MAY perform different actions and return different information based on the scope values and other parameters used when requesting the presented Access Token.

For OpenID Connect, scopes can be used to request that specific sets of information be made available as Claim Values.

Claims requested by the following scopes are treated by Authorization Servers as Voluntary Claims.

OpenID Connect defines the following scope values that are used to request Claims:

profile

OPTIONAL. This scope value requests access to the End-User's default profile Claims, which are:name,family_name,given_name,middle_name,nickname,preferred_username,profile,picture,website,gender,birthdate,zoneinfo,locale, andupdated_at.

email

OPTIONAL. This scope value requests access to the email andemail_verified Claims.

address

OPTIONAL. This scope value requests access to the address Claim.

phone

OPTIONAL. This scope value requests access to the phone_number andphone_number_verified Claims.

Multiple scope values MAY be used by creating a space-delimited, case-sensitive list of ASCII scope values.

The Claims requested by theprofile,email,address, andphone scope values are returned from the UserInfo Endpoint, as described in Section 5.3.2 (Successful UserInfo Response), when a response_type value is used that results in an Access Token being issued. However, when no Access Token is issued (which is the case for the response_type value id_token), the resulting Claims are returned in the ID Token.

In some cases, the End-User will be given the option to have the OpenID Provider decline to provide some or all information requested by RPs. To minimize the amount of information that the End-User is being asked to disclose, an RP can elect to only request a subset of the information available from the UserInfo Endpoint.

The following is a non-normative example of an unencodedscope request:

scope=openid profile email phone

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5.5. Requesting Claims using the "claims" Request Parameter

OpenID Connect defines the following Authorization Request parameter to enable requesting individual Claims and specifying parameters that apply to the requested Claims:

claims

OPTIONAL. This parameter is used to request that specific Claims be returned. The value is a JSON object listing the requested Claims.

The claims Authentication Request parameter requests that specific Claims be returned from the UserInfo Endpoint and/or in the ID Token. It is represented as a JSON object containing lists of Claims being requested from these locations. Properties of the Claims being requested MAY also be specified.

Support for the claims parameter is OPTIONAL. Should an OP not support this parameter and an RP uses it, the OP SHOULD return a set of Claims to the RP that it believes would be useful to the RP and the End-User using whatever heuristics it believes are appropriate. The claims_parameter_supported Discovery result indicates whether the OP supports this parameter.

The claims parameter value is represented in an OAuth 2.0 request as UTF-8 encoded JSON (which ends up being form-urlencoded when passed as an OAuth parameter). When used in a Request Object value, per Section 6.1 (Passing a Request Object by Value), the JSON is used as the value of theclaims member.

The top-level members of the Claims request JSON object are:

userinfo

OPTIONAL. Requests that the listed individual Claims be returned from the UserInfo Endpoint. If present, the listed Claims are being requested to be added to any Claims that are being requested usingscope values. If not present, the Claims being requested from the UserInfo Endpoint are only those requested using scope values.

When the userinfo member is used, the request MUST also use a response_type value that results in an Access Token being issued to the Client for use at the UserInfo Endpoint.

id_token

OPTIONAL. Requests that the listed individual Claims be returned in the ID Token. If present, the listed Claims are being requested to be added to the default Claims in the ID Token. If not present, the default ID Token Claims are requested, as per the ID Token definition in Section 2 (ID Token) and per the additional per-flow ID Token requirements in Sections3.1.3.6 (ID Token),3.2.2.10 (ID Token),3.3.2.11 (ID Token), and 3.3.3.6 (ID Token).

Other members MAY be present. Any members used that are not understood MUST be ignored.

An example Claims request is as follows:

{ "userinfo": { "given_name": {"essential": true}, "nickname": null, "email": {"essential": true}, "email_verified": {"essential": true}, "picture": null, "http://example.info/claims/groups": null }, "id_token": { "auth_time": {"essential": true}, "acr": {"values": ["urn:mace:incommon:iap:silver"] } } }

Note that a Claim that is not in the standard set defined inSection 5.1 (Standard Claims), the (example)http://example.info/claims/groups Claim, is being requested. Using the claims parameter is the only way to request specific combinations of Claims that cannot be specified using scope values.

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5.5.1. Individual Claims Requests

The userinfo andid_token members of theclaims request both are JSON objects with the names of the individual Claims being requested as the member names. The member values MUST be one of the following:

null

Indicates that this Claim is being requested in the default manner. In particular, this is a Voluntary Claim. For instance, the Claim request: requests the given_name Claim in the default manner.

JSON Object

Used to provide additional information about the Claim being requested. This specification defines the following members:

essential

OPTIONAL. Indicates whether the Claim being requested is an Essential Claim. If the value is true, this indicates that the Claim is an Essential Claim. For instance, the Claim request:

"auth_time": {"essential": true}

can be used to specify that it is Essential to return anauth_time Claim Value.

If the value is false, it indicates that it is a Voluntary Claim. The default is false.

By requesting Claims as Essential Claims, the RP indicates to the End-User that releasing these Claims will ensure a smooth authorization for the specific task requested by the End-User. Note that even if the Claims are not available because the End-User did not authorize their release or they are not present, the Authorization Server MUST NOT generate an error when Claims are not returned, whether they are Essential or Voluntary, unless otherwise specified in the description of the specific claim.

value

OPTIONAL. Requests that the Claim be returned with a particular value. For instance, the Claim request:

"sub": {"value": "248289761001"}

can be used to specify that the request apply to the End-User with Subject Identifier 248289761001.

The value of the value member MUST be a valid value for the Claim being requested. Definitions of individual Claims can include requirements on how and whether the value qualifier is to be used when requesting that Claim. An equality comparison is used to determine whether the requested Claim value matches.

When the Claim value does not match the requested value, the Claim is not included in the response. If the Claim was sub, a mismatch MUST cause the authentication to fail, as described in Section 3.1.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation).

values

OPTIONAL. Requests that the Claim be returned with one of a set of values, with the values appearing in order of preference. This is processed equivalently to a value request, except that a choice of acceptable Claim values is provided.

For instance, the Claim request:

"acr": {"essential": true, "values": ["urn:mace:incommon:iap:silver", "urn:mace:incommon:iap:bronze"]}

specifies that it is Essential that the acr Claim be returned with either the valueurn:mace:incommon:iap:silver orurn:mace:incommon:iap:bronze.

The values in the values member array MUST be valid values for the Claim being requested. Definitions of individual Claims can include requirements on how and whether the values qualifier is to be used when requesting that Claim. An equality comparison is used to determine whether the requested Claim values match.

When the Claim value does not match any of the requested values, the Claim is not included in the response.

Other members MAY be defined to provide additional information about the requested Claims. Any members used that are not understood MUST be ignored.

Note that when the claims request parameter is supported, the scope values that request Claims, as defined inSection 5.4 (Requesting Claims using Scope Values), are effectively shorthand methods for requesting sets of individual Claims. For example, using the scope value openid email and a response_type that returns an Access Token is equivalent to using the scope value openid and the following request for individual Claims.

Equivalent of using the email scope value:

{ "userinfo": { "email": null, "email_verified": null } }

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5.5.1.1. Requesting the "acr" Claim

If the acr Claim is requested as an Essential Claim for the ID Token with a value or values parameter requesting specific Authentication Context Class Reference values and the implementation supports the claims parameter, the Authorization Server MUST return an acr Claim Value that matches one of the requested values. The Authorization Server MAY ask the End-User to re-authenticate with additional factors to meet this requirement. If this is an Essential Claim and the requirement cannot be met, then the Authorization Server MUST treat that outcome as a failed authentication attempt.

Note that the RP MAY request the acr Claim as a Voluntary Claim by using the acr_values request parameter or by not including "essential": true in an individualacr Claim request. If the Claim is not Essential and a requested value cannot be provided, the Authorization Server SHOULD return the session's current acr as the value of the acr Claim. If the Claim is not Essential, the Authorization Server is not required to provide this Claim in its response.

If the client requests the acr Claim using both the acr_values request parameter and an individual acr Claim request for the ID Token listing specific requested values, the resulting behavior is unspecified.

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5.5.2. Languages and Scripts for Individual Claims

As described in Section 5.2 (Claims Languages and Scripts), human-readable Claim Values and Claim Values that reference human-readable values MAY be represented in multiple languages and scripts. Within a request for individual Claims, requested languages and scripts for particular Claims MAY be requested by including Claim Names that contain #-separatedBCP47 (Phillips, A., Ed. and M. Davis, Ed., “Tags for Identifying Languages,” September 2009.) [RFC5646] language tags in the Claims request, using the Claim Name syntax specified inSection 5.2 (Claims Languages and Scripts). For example, a Family Name in Katakana in Japanese can be requested using the Claim Namefamily_name#ja-Kana-JP and a Kanji representation of the Family Name in Japanese can be requested using the Claim Namefamily_name#ja-Hani-JP. A German-language Web site can be requested with the Claim Namewebsite#de.

If an OP receives a request for human-readable Claims in a language and script that it does not have, any versions of those Claims returned that do not use the requested language and script SHOULD use a language tag in the Claim Name.

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5.6. Claim Types

Three representations of Claim Values are defined by this specification:

Normal Claims

Claims that are directly asserted by the OpenID Provider.

Aggregated Claims

Claims that are asserted by a Claims Provider other than the OpenID Provider but are returned by OpenID Provider.

Distributed Claims

Claims that are asserted by a Claims Provider other than the OpenID Provider but are returned as references by the OpenID Provider.

Normal Claims MUST be supported. Support for Aggregated Claims and Distributed Claims is OPTIONAL.

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5.6.1. Normal Claims

Normal Claims are represented as members in a JSON object. The Claim Name is the member name and the Claim Value is the member value.

The following is a non-normative response containing Normal Claims:

{ "sub": "248289761001", "name": "Jane Doe", "given_name": "Jane", "family_name": "Doe", "email": "janedoe@example.com", "picture": "http://example.com/janedoe/me.jpg" }

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5.6.2. Aggregated and Distributed Claims

Aggregated and distributed Claims are represented by using special _claim_names and_claim_sources members of the JSON object containing the Claims.

_claim_names

JSON object whose member names are the Claim Names for the Aggregated and Distributed Claims. The member values are references to the member names in the _claim_sources member from which the actual Claim Values can be retrieved. The OP MAY omit some Claims available from referenced Claims Providers from the set of Claim Names.

_claim_sources

JSON object whose member names are referenced by the member values of the_claim_names member. The member values contain sets of Aggregated Claims or reference locations for Distributed Claims. The member values can have one of the following formats depending on whether it is providing Aggregated or Distributed Claims:

Aggregated Claims

JSON object that MUST contain the JWT member whose value is a JWT (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.) [JWT] that MUST contain all the Claims in the _claim_names object that references the corresponding _claim_sources member. Other members MAY be present. Any members used that are not understood MUST be ignored.

JWT

REQUIRED. JWT containing Claim Values.

The JWT SHOULD NOT contain a sub (subject) Claim unless its value is an identifier for the End-User at the Claims Provider (and not for the OpenID Provider or another party); this typically means that a sub Claim SHOULD NOT be provided.

Distributed Claims

JSON object that contains the following members and values:

endpoint

REQUIRED. OAuth 2.0 resource endpoint from which the associated Claim can be retrieved. The endpoint URL MUST return the Claim as a JWT.

access_token

OPTIONAL. Access Token enabling retrieval of the Claims from the endpoint URL by using the OAuth 2.0 Bearer Token Usage (Jones, M. and D. Hardt, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage,” October 2012.) [RFC6750] protocol. Claims SHOULD be requested using the Authorization Request header field and Claims Providers MUST support this method. If the Access Token is not available, RPs MAY need to retrieve the Access Token out of band or use an Access Token that was pre-negotiated between the Claims Provider and RP, or the Claims Provider MAY reauthenticate the End-User and/or reauthorize the RP.

Since it is not an error condition to not return a requested Claim, RPs MUST be prepared to handle the condition that some Claims listed in_claim_sources are not returned from the Claims Provider. They SHOULD treat this the same as when any other requested Claim is not returned.

A sub (subject) Claim SHOULD NOT be returned from the Claims Provider unless its value is an identifier for the End-User at the Claims Provider (and not for the OpenID Provider or another party); this typically means that a sub Claim SHOULD NOT be provided.

An iss (issuer) Claim SHOULD be included in any JWT issued by a Claims Provider so that the Claims Provider's keys can be retrieved for signature validation of the JWT. The value of the Claim is the Claims Provider's Issuer Identifier URL.

In general, it is up to the OP when it is appropriate to use Aggregated Claims and Distributed Claims. In some cases, information about when to use what Claim Types might be negotiated out of band between RPs and OPs.

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5.6.2.1. Example of Aggregated Claims

In this non-normative example, Claims from Claims Provider A are combined with other Claims held by the OpenID provider, with the Claims from Claims Provider A being returned as Aggregated Claims.

In this example, these Claims about Jane Doe have been issued by Claims Provider A. (The example also includes the Claims Provider's Issuer Identifier URL.)

{ "iss": "https://a.example.com", "address": { "street_address": "1234 Hollywood Blvd.", "locality": "Los Angeles", "region": "CA", "postal_code": "90210", "country": "United States of America"}, "phone_number": "+1 (310) 123-4567" }

Claims Provider A signs the JSON Claims, representing them in a signed JWT: jwt_header.jwt_part2.jwt_part3. It is this JWT that is used by the OpenID Provider.

In this example, this JWT containing Jane Doe's Aggregated Claims from Claims Provider A is combined with other Normal Claims, and returned as the following set of Claims:

{ "sub": "248289761001", "name": "Jane Doe", "given_name": "Jane", "family_name": "Doe", "birthdate": "0000-03-22", "eye_color": "blue", "email": "janedoe@example.com", "_claim_names": { "address": "src1", "phone_number": "src1" }, "_claim_sources": { "src1": {"JWT": "jwt_header.jwt_part2.jwt_part3"} } }

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5.6.2.2. Example of Distributed Claims

In this non-normative example, the OpenID Provider combines Normal Claims that it holds with references to Claims held by two different Claims Providers, B and C, incorporating references to some of the Claims held by B and C as Distributed Claims.

In this example, these Claims about Jane Doe are held by Claims Provider B (Jane Doe's bank). (The example also includes the Claims Provider's Issuer Identifier URL.)

{ "iss": "https://bank.example.com", "shipping_address": { "street_address": "1234 Hollywood Blvd.", "locality": "Los Angeles", "region": "CA", "postal_code": "90210", "country": "United States of America"}, "payment_info": "Some_Card 1234 5678 9012 3456", "phone_number": "+1 (310) 123-4567" }

Also in this example, this Claim about Jane Doe is held by Claims Provider C (a credit agency). (The example also includes the Claims Provider's Issuer Identifier URL.)

{ "iss": "https://creditagency.example.com", "credit_score": 650 }

The OpenID Provider returns Jane Doe's Claims along with references to the Distributed Claims from Claims Provider B and Claims Provider C by sending the Access Tokens and URLs of locations from which the Distributed Claims can be retrieved:

{ "sub": "248289761001", "name": "Jane Doe", "given_name": "Jane", "family_name": "Doe", "email": "janedoe@example.com", "birthdate": "0000-03-22", "eye_color": "blue", "_claim_names": { "payment_info": "src1", "shipping_address": "src1", "credit_score": "src2" }, "_claim_sources": { "src1": {"endpoint": "https://bank.example.com/claim_source"}, "src2": {"endpoint": "https://creditagency.example.com/claims_here", "access_token": "ksj3n283dke"} } }

Note that not returning phone_number, which is held by Claims Provider B, demonstrates that not all Claims held by a utilized Claims Provider need be included.

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5.7. Claim Stability and Uniqueness

The sub (subject) andiss (issuer) Claims from the ID Token, used together, are the only Claims that an RP can rely upon as a stable identifier for the End-User, since the sub Claim MUST be locally unique and never reassigned within the Issuer for a particular End-User, as described in Section 2 (ID Token). Therefore, the only guaranteed unique identifier for a given End-User is the combination of the iss Claim and the sub Claim.

All other Claims carry no such guarantees across different issuers in terms of stability over time or uniqueness across users, and Issuers are permitted to apply local restrictions and policies. For instance, an Issuer MAY re-use anemail Claim Value across different End-Users at different points in time, and the claimedemail address for a given End-User MAY change over time. Therefore, other Claims such as email,phone_number,preferred_username, and name MUST NOT be used as unique identifiers for the End-User, whether obtained from the ID Token or the UserInfo Endpoint.

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6. Passing Request Parameters as JWTs

OpenID Connect defines the following Authorization Request parameters to enable Authentication Requests to be signed and optionally encrypted:

request

OPTIONAL. This parameter enables OpenID Connect requests to be passed in a single, self-contained parameter and to be optionally signed and/or encrypted. The parameter value is a Request Object value, as specified in Section 6.1 (Passing a Request Object by Value). It represents the request as a JWT whose Claims are the request parameters.

request_uri

OPTIONAL. This parameter enables OpenID Connect requests to be passed by reference, rather than by value. The request_uri value is a URL referencing a resource containing a Request Object value, which is a JWT containing the request parameters. This URL MUST use the https scheme unless the target Request Object is signed in a way that is verifiable by the OP.

Requests using these parameters are represented as JWTs, which are respectively passed by value or by reference. The ability to pass requests by reference is particularly useful for large requests. If one of these parameters is used, the other MUST NOT be used in the same request.

Note that the Request Objects defined here are compatible with those specified byThe OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT-Secured Authorization Request (JAR) (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT-Secured Authorization Request (JAR),” August 2021.) [RFC9101].

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6.1. Passing a Request Object by Value

The request Authorization Request parameter enables OpenID Connect requests to be passed in a single, self-contained parameter and to be optionally signed and/or encrypted. It represents the request as a JWT whose Claims are the request parameters specified in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint). This JWT is called a Request Object.

Support for the request parameter is OPTIONAL. The request_parameter_supported Discovery result indicates whether the OP supports this parameter. Should an OP not support this parameter and an RP uses it, the OP MUST return the request_not_supported error.

When the request parameter is used, the OpenID Connect request parameter values contained in the JWT supersede those passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax. However, parameters MAY also be passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax even when a Request Object is used; this would typically be done to enable a cached, pre-signed (and possibly pre-encrypted) Request Object value to be used containing the fixed request parameters, while parameters that can vary with each request, such as state andnonce, are passed as OAuth 2.0 parameters.

So that the request is a valid OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request, values for the response_type andclient_id parameters MUST be included using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax, since they are REQUIRED by OAuth 2.0. The values for these parameters MUST match those in the Request Object, if present.

Even if a scope parameter is present in the Request Object value, a scope parameter MUST always be passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax containing theopenid scope value to indicate to the underlying OAuth 2.0 logic that this is an OpenID Connect request.

The Request Object MAY be signed or unsigned (unsecured). When it is unsecured, this is indicated by use of thenone algorithm [JWA] (Jones, M., “JSON Web Algorithms (JWA),” May 2015.) in the JOSE Header. If signed, the Request Object SHOULD contain the Claimsiss (issuer) and aud (audience) as members. The iss value SHOULD be the Client ID of the RP, unless it was signed by a different party than the RP. The aud value SHOULD be or include the OP's Issuer Identifier URL.

The Request Object MAY also be encrypted using JWE (Jones, M. and J. Hildebrand, “JSON Web Encryption (JWE),” May 2015.) [JWE] and MAY be encrypted without also being signed. If both signing and encryption are performed, it MUST be signed then encrypted, with the result being a Nested JWT, as defined in [JWT] (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.).

request andrequest_uri parameters MUST NOT be included in Request Objects.

The following is a non-normative example of the Claims in a Request Object before base64url-encoding and signing:

{ "iss": "s6BhdRkqt3", "aud": "https://server.example.com", "response_type": "code id_token", "client_id": "s6BhdRkqt3", "redirect_uri": "https://client.example.org/cb", "scope": "openid", "state": "af0ifjsldkj", "nonce": "n-0S6_WzA2Mj", "max_age": 86400, "claims": { "userinfo": { "given_name": {"essential": true}, "nickname": null, "email": {"essential": true}, "email_verified": {"essential": true}, "picture": null }, "id_token": { "gender": null, "birthdate": {"essential": true}, "acr": {"values": ["urn:mace:incommon:iap:silver"]} } } }

Signing it with the RS256 algorithm results in this Request Object value (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImsyYmRjIn0.ew0KICJpc3MiOiAiczZCaGRSa3 F0MyIsDQogImF1ZCI6ICJodHRwczovL3NlcnZlci5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsDQogInJl c3BvbnNlX3R5cGUiOiAiY29kZSBpZF90b2tlbiIsDQogImNsaWVudF9pZCI6ICJzNk JoZFJrcXQzIiwNCiAicmVkaXJlY3RfdXJpIjogImh0dHBzOi8vY2xpZW50LmV4YW1w bGUub3JnL2NiIiwNCiAic2NvcGUiOiAib3BlbmlkIiwNCiAic3RhdGUiOiAiYWYwaW Zqc2xka2oiLA0KICJub25jZSI6ICJuLTBTNl9XekEyTWoiLA0KICJtYXhfYWdlIjog ODY0MDAsDQogImNsYWltcyI6IA0KICB7DQogICAidXNlcmluZm8iOiANCiAgICB7DQ ogICAgICJnaXZlbl9uYW1lIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAgICAgIm5p Y2tuYW1lIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfS wNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsX3ZlcmlmaWVkIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAg ICAgInBpY3R1cmUiOiBudWxsDQogICAgfSwNCiAgICJpZF90b2tlbiI6IA0KICAgIH sNCiAgICAgImdlbmRlciI6IG51bGwsDQogICAgICJiaXJ0aGRhdGUiOiB7ImVzc2Vu dGlhbCI6IHRydWV9LA0KICAgICAiYWNyIjogeyJ2YWx1ZXMiOiBbInVybjptYWNlOm luY29tbW9uOmlhcDpzaWx2ZXIiXX0NCiAgICB9DQogIH0NCn0.nwwnNsk1-Zkbmnvs F6zTHm8CHERFMGQPhos-EJcaH4Hh-sMgk8ePrGhw_trPYs8KQxsn6R9Emo_wHwajyF KzuMXZFSZ3p6Mb8dkxtVyjoy2GIzvuJT_u7PkY2t8QU9hjBcHs68PkgjDVTrG1uRTx 0GxFbuPbj96tVuj11pTnmFCUR6IEOXKYr7iGOCRB3btfJhM0_AKQUfqKnRlrRscc8K ol-cSLWoYE9l5QqholImzjT_cMnNIznW9E7CDyWXTsO70xnB4SkG6pXfLSjLLlxmPG iyon_-Te111V8uE83IlzCYIb_NMXvtTIVc1jpspnTSD7xMbpL-2QgwUsAlMGzw

The following RSA public key, represented in JWK format, can be used to validate the Request Object signature in this and subsequent Request Object examples (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

{ "kty":"RSA", "kid":"k2bdc", "n":"y9Lqv4fCp6Ei-u2-ZCKq83YvbFEk6JMs_pSj76eMkddWRuWX2aBKGHAtKlE5P 7_vn__PCKZWePt3vGkB6ePgzAFu08NmKemwE5bQI0e6kIChtt_6KzT5OaaXDF I6qCLJmk51Cc4VYFaxgqevMncYrzaW_50mZ1yGSFIQzLYP8bijAHGVjdEFgZa ZEN9lsn_GdWLaJpHrB3ROlS50E45wxrlg9xMncVb8qDPuXZarvghLL0HzOuYR adBJVoWZowDNTpKpk2RklZ7QaBO7XDv3uR7s_sf2g-bAjSYxYUGsqkNA9b3xV W53am_UZZ3tZbFTIh557JICWKHlWj5uzeJXaw", "e":"AQAB" }

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6.1.1. Request using the "request" Request Parameter

The Client sends the Authorization Request to the Authorization Endpoint.

The following is a non-normative example of an Authorization Request using the request parameter (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

https://server.example.com/authorize? response_type=code%20id_token &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb &scope=openid &state=af0ifjsldkj &nonce=n-0S6_WzA2Mj &request=eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImsyYmRjIn0.ew0KICJpc3MiOiA iczZCaGRSa3F0MyIsDQogImF1ZCI6ICJodHRwczovL3NlcnZlci5leGFtcGxlLmN vbSIsDQogInJlc3BvbnNlX3R5cGUiOiAiY29kZSBpZF90b2tlbiIsDQogImNsaWV udF9pZCI6ICJzNkJoZFJrcXQzIiwNCiAicmVkaXJlY3RfdXJpIjogImh0dHBzOi8 vY2xpZW50LmV4YW1wbGUub3JnL2NiIiwNCiAic2NvcGUiOiAib3BlbmlkIiwNCiA ic3RhdGUiOiAiYWYwaWZqc2xka2oiLA0KICJub25jZSI6ICJuLTBTNl9XekEyTWo iLA0KICJtYXhfYWdlIjogODY0MDAsDQogImNsYWltcyI6IA0KICB7DQogICAidXN lcmluZm8iOiANCiAgICB7DQogICAgICJnaXZlbl9uYW1lIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWw iOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAgICAgIm5pY2tuYW1lIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsIjo geyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsX3ZlcmlmaWVkIjogeyJ lc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAgICAgInBpY3R1cmUiOiBudWxsDQogICAgfSw NCiAgICJpZF90b2tlbiI6IA0KICAgIHsNCiAgICAgImdlbmRlciI6IG51bGwsDQo gICAgICJiaXJ0aGRhdGUiOiB7ImVzc2VudGlhbCI6IHRydWV9LA0KICAgICAiYWN yIjogeyJ2YWx1ZXMiOiBbInVybjptYWNlOmluY29tbW9uOmlhcDpzaWx2ZXIiXX0 NCiAgICB9DQogIH0NCn0.nwwnNsk1-ZkbmnvsF6zTHm8CHERFMGQPhos-EJcaH4H h-sMgk8ePrGhw_trPYs8KQxsn6R9Emo_wHwajyFKzuMXZFSZ3p6Mb8dkxtVyjoy2 GIzvuJT_u7PkY2t8QU9hjBcHs68PkgjDVTrG1uRTx0GxFbuPbj96tVuj11pTnmFC UR6IEOXKYr7iGOCRB3btfJhM0_AKQUfqKnRlrRscc8Kol-cSLWoYE9l5QqholImz jT_cMnNIznW9E7CDyWXTsO70xnB4SkG6pXfLSjLLlxmPGiyon_-Te111V8uE83Il zCYIb_NMXvtTIVc1jpspnTSD7xMbpL-2QgwUsAlMGzw

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6.2. Passing a Request Object by Reference

The request_uri Authorization Request parameter enables OpenID Connect requests to be passed by reference, rather than by value. This parameter is used identically to therequest parameter, other than that the Request Object value is retrieved from the resource at the specified URL, rather than passed by value.

The request_uri_parameter_supported Discovery result indicates whether the OP supports this parameter. Should an OP not support this parameter and an RP uses it, the OP MUST return the request_uri_not_supported error.

When the request_uri parameter is used, the OpenID Connect request parameter values contained in the referenced JWT supersede those passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax. However, parameters MAY also be passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax even when a request_uri is used; this would typically be done to enable a cached, pre-signed (and possibly pre-encrypted) Request Object value to be used containing the fixed request parameters, while parameters that can vary with each request, such as state andnonce, are passed as OAuth 2.0 parameters.

So that the request is a valid OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request, values for the response_type andclient_id parameters MUST be included using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax, since they are REQUIRED by OAuth 2.0. The values for these parameters MUST match those in the Request Object, if present.

Even if a scope parameter is present in the referenced Request Object, a scope parameter MUST always be passed using the OAuth 2.0 request syntax containing theopenid scope value to indicate to the underlying OAuth 2.0 logic that this is an OpenID Connect request.

Servers MAY cache the contents of the resources referenced by Request URIs. If the contents of the referenced resource could ever change, the URI SHOULD include the base64url-encoded SHA-256 hash of the referenced resource contents as the fragment component of the URI. If the fragment value used for a URI changes, that signals the server that any cached value for that URI with the old fragment value is no longer valid.

Note that Clients MAY pre-registerrequest_uri values using therequest_uris parameter defined in Section 2.1 of theOpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration] specification. OPs can require that request_uri values used be pre-registered with the require_request_uri_registration discovery parameter.

The entire Request URI SHOULD NOT exceed 512 ASCII characters.

The contents of the resource referenced by the URL MUST be a Request Object. The scheme used in therequest_uri value MUST be https, unless the target Request Object is signed in a way that is verifiable by the Authorization Server. The request_uri value MUST be reachable by the Authorization Server and SHOULD be reachable by the Client.

The following is a non-normative example of the contents of a Request Object resource that can be referenced by a request_uri (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

eyJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsImtpZCI6ImsyYmRjIn0.ew0KICJpc3MiOiAiczZCaGRSa3 F0MyIsDQogImF1ZCI6ICJodHRwczovL3NlcnZlci5leGFtcGxlLmNvbSIsDQogInJl c3BvbnNlX3R5cGUiOiAiY29kZSBpZF90b2tlbiIsDQogImNsaWVudF9pZCI6ICJzNk JoZFJrcXQzIiwNCiAicmVkaXJlY3RfdXJpIjogImh0dHBzOi8vY2xpZW50LmV4YW1w bGUub3JnL2NiIiwNCiAic2NvcGUiOiAib3BlbmlkIiwNCiAic3RhdGUiOiAiYWYwaW Zqc2xka2oiLA0KICJub25jZSI6ICJuLTBTNl9XekEyTWoiLA0KICJtYXhfYWdlIjog ODY0MDAsDQogImNsYWltcyI6IA0KICB7DQogICAidXNlcmluZm8iOiANCiAgICB7DQ ogICAgICJnaXZlbl9uYW1lIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAgICAgIm5p Y2tuYW1lIjogbnVsbCwNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfS wNCiAgICAgImVtYWlsX3ZlcmlmaWVkIjogeyJlc3NlbnRpYWwiOiB0cnVlfSwNCiAg ICAgInBpY3R1cmUiOiBudWxsDQogICAgfSwNCiAgICJpZF90b2tlbiI6IA0KICAgIH sNCiAgICAgImdlbmRlciI6IG51bGwsDQogICAgICJiaXJ0aGRhdGUiOiB7ImVzc2Vu dGlhbCI6IHRydWV9LA0KICAgICAiYWNyIjogeyJ2YWx1ZXMiOiBbInVybjptYWNlOm luY29tbW9uOmlhcDpzaWx2ZXIiXX0NCiAgICB9DQogIH0NCn0.nwwnNsk1-Zkbmnvs F6zTHm8CHERFMGQPhos-EJcaH4Hh-sMgk8ePrGhw_trPYs8KQxsn6R9Emo_wHwajyF KzuMXZFSZ3p6Mb8dkxtVyjoy2GIzvuJT_u7PkY2t8QU9hjBcHs68PkgjDVTrG1uRTx 0GxFbuPbj96tVuj11pTnmFCUR6IEOXKYr7iGOCRB3btfJhM0_AKQUfqKnRlrRscc8K ol-cSLWoYE9l5QqholImzjT_cMnNIznW9E7CDyWXTsO70xnB4SkG6pXfLSjLLlxmPG iyon_-Te111V8uE83IlzCYIb_NMXvtTIVc1jpspnTSD7xMbpL-2QgwUsAlMGzw

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6.2.1. URI Referencing the Request Object

The Client stores the Request Object resource either locally or remotely at a URL the Server can access. This URL is the Request URI, request_uri.

If the Request Object includes requested values for Claims, it MUST NOT be revealed to anybody but the Authorization Server. As such, the request_uri MUST have appropriate entropy for its lifetime. It is RECOMMENDED that it be removed if it is known that it will not be used again or after a reasonable timeout unless access control measures are taken.

The following is a non-normative example of a Request URI value (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

https://client.example.org/request.jwt# GkurKxf5T0Y-mnPFCHqWOMiZi4VS138cQO_V7PZHAdM

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6.2.2. Request using the "request_uri" Request Parameter

The Client sends the Authorization Request to the Authorization Endpoint.

The following is a non-normative example of an Authorization Request using the request_uri parameter (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

https://server.example.com/authorize? response_type=code%20id_token &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &request_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Frequest.jwt %23GkurKxf5T0Y-mnPFCHqWOMiZi4VS138cQO_V7PZHAdM &state=af0ifjsldkj&nonce=n-0S6_WzA2Mj &scope=openid

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6.2.3. Authorization Server Fetches Request Object

Upon receipt of the Request, the Authorization Server MUST send an HTTP GET request to the request_uri to retrieve the referenced Request Object, unless it is already cached, and parse it to recreate the Authorization Request parameters.

Note that the RP SHOULD use a unique URI for each request utilizing distinct parameters, or otherwise prevent the Authorization Server from caching the request_uri.

The following is a non-normative example of this fetch process:

GET /request.jwt HTTP/1.1 Host: client.example.org

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6.2.4. "request_uri" Rationale

There are several reasons that one might choose to use therequest_uri parameter:

1. The set of request parameters can become large and can exceed browser URI size limitations. Passing the request parameters by reference can solve this problem.
2. Passing a request_uri value, rather than a complete request by value, can reduce request latency.
3. Most requests for Claims from an RP are constant. The request_uri is a way of creating and sometimes also signing and encrypting a constant set of request parameters in advance. (The request_uri value becomes an "artifact" representing a particular fixed set of request parameters.)
4. Pre-registering a fixed set of request parameters at Registration time enables OPs to cache and pre-validate the request parameters at Registration time, meaning they need not be retrieved at request time.
5. Pre-registering a fixed set of request parameters at Registration time enables OPs to vet the contents of the request from consumer protection and other points of views, either itself or by utilizing a third party.

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6.3. Validating JWT-Based Requests

When the request orrequest_uri Authorization Request parameters are used, additional steps must be performed to validate the Authentication Request beyond those specified in Sections 3.1.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation),3.2.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation), or3.3.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation). These steps are to validate the JWT containing the Request Object and to validate the Request Object itself.

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6.3.1. Encrypted Request Object

If the Authorization Server has advertised JWE encryption algorithms in the request_object_encryption_alg_values_supported andrequest_object_encryption_enc_values_supported elements of its Discovery document [OpenID.Discovery] (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., and E. Jay, “OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0,” December 2023.), or has supplied encryption algorithms by other means, these are used by the Client to encrypt the JWT.

The Authorization Server MUST decrypt the JWT in accordance with the JSON Web Encryption (Jones, M. and J. Hildebrand, “JSON Web Encryption (JWE),” May 2015.) [JWE] specification. The result MAY be either a signed or unsigned (unsecured) Request Object. In the former case, signature validation MUST be performed as defined in Section 6.3.2 (Signed Request Object).

The Authorization Server MUST return an error if decryption fails.

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6.3.2. Signed Request Object

To perform Signature Validation, the alg Header Parameter in the JOSE Header MUST match the value of the request_object_signing_alg set during Client Registration [OpenID.Registration] (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) or a value that was pre-registered by other means. The signature MUST be validated against the appropriate key for that client_id and algorithm.

The Authorization Server MUST return an error if signature validation fails.

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6.3.3. Request Parameter Assembly and Validation

The Authorization Server MUST assemble the set of Authorization Request parameters to be used from the Request Object value and the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Request parameters (minus the request orrequest_uri parameters). If the same parameter exists both in the Request Object and the OAuth Authorization Request parameters, the parameter in the Request Object is used. Using the assembled set of Authorization Request parameters, the Authorization Server then validates the request the normal manner for the flow being used, as specified in Sections 3.1.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation),3.2.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation), or3.3.2.2 (Authentication Request Validation).

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7. Self-Issued OpenID Provider

OpenID Connect supports Self-Issued OpenID Providers - personal, self-hosted OPs that issue self-signed ID Tokens. Self-Issued OPs use the special Issuer Identifierhttps://self-issued.me.

The messages used to communicate with Self-Issued OPs are mostly the same as those used to communicate with other OPs. Specifications for the few additional parameters used and for the values of some parameters in the Self-Issued case are defined in this section.

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7.1. Self-Issued OpenID Provider Discovery

If the input identifier for the discovery process contains the domain self-issued.me, dynamic discovery is not performed. Instead, then the following static configuration values are used:

{ "authorization_endpoint": "openid:", "issuer": "https://self-issued.me", "scopes_supported": ["openid", "profile", "email", "address", "phone"], "response_types_supported": ["id_token"], "subject_types_supported": ["pairwise"], "id_token_signing_alg_values_supported": ["RS256"], "request_object_signing_alg_values_supported": ["none", "RS256"] }

NOTE: The OpenID Foundation plans to host the OpenID Provider sitehttps://self-issued.me/, including its WebFinger service, so that performing discovery on it returns the above static discovery information, enabling RPs to not need any special processing for discovery of the Self-Issued OP. This site will be hosted on an experimental basis. Production implementations should not take a dependency upon it without a subsequent commitment by the OpenID Foundation to host the site in a manner intended for production use.

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7.2. Self-Issued OpenID Provider Registration

When using a Self-Issued OP, registration is not required. The Client can proceed without registration as if it had registered with the OP and obtained the following Client Registration Response:

client_id

redirect_uri value of the Client.

client_secret_expires_at

0

NOTE: The OpenID Foundation plans to host the (stateless) endpointhttps://self-issued.me/registration/1.0/ that returns the response above, enabling RPs to not need any special processing for registration with the Self-Issued OP. This site will be hosted on an experimental basis. Production implementations should not take a dependency upon it without a subsequent commitment by the OpenID Foundation to host the site in a manner intended for production use.

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7.2.1. Providing Information with the "registration" Request Parameter

OpenID Connect defines the following Authorization Request parameter to enable Clients to provide additional registration information to Self-Issued OpenID Providers:

registration

OPTIONAL. This parameter is used by the Client to provide information about itself to a Self-Issued OP that would normally be provided to an OP during Dynamic Client Registration. The value is a JSON object containing Client metadata values, as defined in Section 2.1 of theOpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration] specification. The registration parameter SHOULD NOT be used when the OP is not a Self-Issued OP.

None of this information is REQUIRED by Self-Issued OPs, so the use of this parameter is OPTIONAL.

The registration parameter value is represented in an OAuth 2.0 request as a UTF-8 encoded JSON object (which ends up being form-urlencoded when passed as an OAuth parameter). When used in a Request Object value, per Section 6.1 (Passing a Request Object by Value), the JSON object is used as the value of theregistration member.

The Registration parameters that would typically be used in requests to Self-Issued OPs arepolicy_uri,tos_uri, andlogo_uri. If the Client uses more than one Redirection URI, theredirect_uris parameter would be used to register them. Finally, if the Client is requesting encrypted responses, it would typically use thejwks_uri,id_token_encrypted_response_alg andid_token_encrypted_response_enc parameters.

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7.3. Self-Issued OpenID Provider Request

The self-issued OP's Authorization Endpoint is the URI openid:.

The Client sends the Authentication Request to the Authorization Endpoint with the following parameters:

scope

REQUIRED.scope parameter value, as specified in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint).

response_type

REQUIRED. Constant string value id_token.

client_id

REQUIRED. Client ID value for the Client, which in this case contains theredirect_uri value of the Client. Since the Client'sredirect_uri URI value is communicated as the Client ID, a redirect_uri parameter is NOT REQUIRED to also be included in the request.

id_token_hint

OPTIONAL.id_token_hint parameter value, as specified in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint). Encrypting content to Self-Issued OPs is not supported.

claims

OPTIONAL.claims parameter value, as specified in Section 5.5 (Requesting Claims using the "claims" Request Parameter).

registration

OPTIONAL. This parameter is used by the Client to provide information about itself to a Self-Issued OP that would normally be provided to an OP during Dynamic Client Registration, as specified in Section 7.2.1 (Providing Information with the "registration" Request Parameter).

request

OPTIONAL. Request Object value, as specified in Section 6.1 (Passing a Request Object by Value). Encrypting content to Self-Issued OPs is not supported.

Other parameters MAY be sent. Note that all Claims are returned in the ID Token.

The entire URL MUST NOT exceed 2048 ASCII characters.

The following is a non-normative example HTTP 302 redirect response by the Client, which triggers the User Agent to make an Authentication Request to the Self-Issued OpenID Provider (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

HTTP/1.1 302 Found Location: openid://? response_type=id_token &client_id=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb &scope=openid%20profile &state=af0ifjsldkj &nonce=n-0S6_WzA2Mj &registration=%7B%22logo_uri%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2F client.example.org%2Flogo.png%22%7D

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7.4. Self-Issued OpenID Provider Response

OpenID Connect defines the following Claim for use in Self-Issued OpenID Provider Responses:

sub_jwk

REQUIRED. Public key used to check the signature of an ID Token issued by a Self-Issued OpenID Provider, as specified in Section 7 (Self-Issued OpenID Provider). The key is a bare key in JWK [JWK] (Jones, M., “JSON Web Key (JWK),” May 2015.) format (not an X.509 certificate value). The sub_jwk value is a JSON object. Use of the sub_jwk Claim is NOT RECOMMENDED when the OP is not Self-Issued.

The Self-Issued OpenID Provider response is the same as the normal Implicit Flow response with the following refinements. Since it is an Implicit Flow response, the response parameters will be returned in the URL fragment component, unless a different Response Mode was specified.

1. The iss (issuer) Claim Value ishttps://self-issued.me.
2. A sub_jwk Claim is present, with its value being the public key used to check the signature of the ID Token.
3. The sub (subject) Claim value is the base64url-encoded representation of the thumbprint of the key in the sub_jwk Claim. This thumbprint value is computed as the SHA-256 hash of the octets of the UTF-8 representation of a JWK constructed containing only the REQUIRED members to represent the key, with the member names sorted into lexicographic order, and with no whitespace or line breaks. For instance, when the kty value isRSA, the member namese,kty, andn are the ones present in the constructed JWK used in the thumbprint computation and appear in that order; when the kty value isEC, the member namescrv,kty,x, andy are present in that order. Note that this thumbprint calculation is the same as that defined in the JWK Thumbprint [JWK.Thumbprint] (Jones, M. and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Key (JWK) Thumbprint,” September 2015.) specification.
4. No Access Token is returned for accessing a UserInfo Endpoint, so all Claims returned MUST be in the ID Token.

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7.5. Self-Issued ID Token Validation

To validate the ID Token received, the Client MUST do the following:

1. The Client MUST validate that the value of the iss (issuer) Claim is https://self-issued.me. If iss contains a different value, the ID Token is not Self-Issued, and instead it MUST be validated according toSection 3.1.3.7 (ID Token Validation).
2. The Client MUST validate that theaud (audience) Claim contains the value of the redirect_uri that the Client sent in the Authentication Request as an audience.
3. The Client MUST validate the signature of the ID Token according toJWS (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] using the algorithm specified in thealg Header Parameter of the JOSE Header, using the key in the sub_jwk Claim; the key is a bare key in JWK format (not an X.509 certificate value).
4. The alg value SHOULD be the default ofRS256. It MAY also be ES256.
5. The Client MUST validate that the sub Claim value is the base64url-encoded representation of the thumbprint of the key in the sub_jwk Claim, as specified in Section 7.4 (Self-Issued OpenID Provider Response).
6. The current time MUST be before the time represented by theexp Claim (possibly allowing for some small leeway to account for clock skew).
7. The iat Claim can be used to reject tokens that were issued too far away from the current time, limiting the amount of time that nonces need to be stored to prevent attacks. The acceptable range is Client specific.
8. A nonce Claim MUST be present and its value checked to verify that it is the same value as the one that was sent in the Authentication Request. The Client SHOULD check the nonce value for replay attacks. The precise method for detecting replay attacks is Client specific.

The following is a non-normative example of a base64url-decoded Self-Issued ID Token (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

{ "iss": "https://self-issued.me", "sub": "NzbLsXh8uDCcd-6MNwXF4W_7noWXFZAfHkxZsRGC9Xs", "aud": "https://client.example.org/cb", "nonce": "n-0S6_WzA2Mj", "exp": 1311281970, "iat": 1311280970, "sub_jwk": { "kty":"RSA", "n": "0vx7agoebGcQSuuPiLJXZptN9nndrQmbXEps2aiAFbWhM78LhWx 4cbbfAAtVT86zwu1RK7aPFFxuhDR1L6tSoc_BJECPebWKRXjBZCiFV4n3oknjhMs tn64tZ_2W-5JsGY4Hc5n9yBXArwl93lqt7_RN5w6Cf0h4QyQ5v-65YGjQR0_FDW2 QvzqY368QQMicAtaSqzs8KJZgnYb9c7d0zgdAZHzu6qMQvRL5hajrn1n91CbOpbI SD08qNLyrdkt-bFTWhAI4vMQFh6WeZu0fM4lFd2NcRwr3XPksINHaQ-G_xBniIqb w0Ls1jF44-csFCur-kEgU8awapJzKnqDKgw", "e":"AQAB" } }

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8. Subject Identifier Types

A Subject Identifier is a locally unique and never reassigned identifier within the Issuer for the End-User, which is intended to be consumed by the Client. Two Subject Identifier types are defined by this specification:

public

This provides the same sub (subject) value to all Clients. It is the default if the provider has no subject_types_supported element in its discovery document.

pairwise

This provides a different sub value to each Client, so as not to enable Clients to correlate the End-User's activities without permission.

The OpenID Provider's Discovery document MUST list its supported Subject Identifier types in thesubject_types_supported element. If there is more than one type listed in the array, the Client MAY elect to provide its preferred identifier type using thesubject_type parameter during Registration.

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8.1. Pairwise Identifier Algorithm

When pairwise Subject Identifiers are used, the OpenID Provider MUST calculate a uniquesub (subject) value for each Sector Identifier. The Subject Identifier value MUST NOT be reversible by any party other than the OpenID Provider.

Providers that use pairwise sub values and supportDynamic Client Registration (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration] SHOULD use the sector_identifier_uri parameter. It provides a way for a group of websites under common administrative control to have consistent pairwise sub values independent of the individual domain names. It also provides a way for Clients to changeredirect_uri domains without having to re-register all of their users.

If the Client has not provided a value forsector_identifier_uri inDynamic Client Registration (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration], the Sector Identifier used for pairwise identifier calculation is the host component of the registered redirect_uri. If there are multiple hostnames in the registeredredirect_uris, the Client MUST register asector_identifier_uri.

When a sector_identifier_uri is provided, the host component of that URL is used as the Sector Identifier for the pairwise identifier calculation. The value of the sector_identifier_uri MUST be a URL using the https scheme that points to a JSON file containing an array ofredirect_uri values. The values of the registered redirect_uris MUST be included in the elements of the array.

Any algorithm with the following properties can be used by OpenID Providers to calculate pairwise Subject Identifiers:

• The Subject Identifier value MUST NOT be reversible by any party other than the OpenID Provider.
• Distinct Sector Identifier values MUST result in distinct Subject Identifier values.
• The algorithm MUST be deterministic.

Three example methods are:

1. The Sector Identifier can be concatenated with a local account ID and a salt value that is kept secret by the Provider. The concatenated string is then hashed using an appropriate algorithm.
   Calculate
   sub = SHA-256 ( sector_identifier || local_account_id || salt ).
2. The Sector Identifier can be concatenated with a local account ID and a salt value that is kept secret by the Provider. The concatenated string is then encrypted using an appropriate algorithm.
   Calculate
   sub = AES-128 ( sector_identifier || local_account_id || salt ).
3. The Issuer creates a Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) for the pair of Sector Identifier and local account ID and stores this value.

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9. Client Authentication

This section defines a set of Client Authentication methods that are used by Clients to authenticate to the Authorization Server when using the Token Endpoint. During Client Registration, the RP (Client) MAY register a Client Authentication method. If no method is registered, the default method is client_secret_basic.

These Client Authentication methods are:

client_secret_basic

Clients that have received a client_secret value from the Authorization Server authenticate with the Authorization Server in accordance with Section 2.3.1 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] using the HTTP Basic authentication scheme.

client_secret_post

Clients that have received a client_secret value from the Authorization Server, authenticate with the Authorization Server in accordance with Section 2.3.1 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749] by including the Client Credentials in the request body.

client_secret_jwt

Clients that have received a client_secret value from the Authorization Server create a JWT using an HMAC SHA algorithm, such as HMAC SHA-256. The HMAC (Hash-based Message Authentication Code) is calculated using the octets of the UTF-8 representation of the client_secret as the shared key.

The Client authenticates in accordance with JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants (Jones, M., Campbell, B., and C. Mortimore, “JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) [OAuth.JWT] andAssertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) [OAuth.Assertions]. The JWT MUST contain the following REQUIRED Claim Values and MAY contain the following OPTIONAL Claim Values:

iss

REQUIRED. Issuer. This MUST contain the client_id of the OAuth Client.

sub

REQUIRED. Subject. This MUST contain the client_id of the OAuth Client.

aud

REQUIRED. Audience. The aud (audience) Claim. Value that identifies the Authorization Server as an intended audience. The Authorization Server MUST verify that it is an intended audience for the token. The Audience SHOULD be the URL of the Authorization Server's Token Endpoint.

jti

REQUIRED. JWT ID. A unique identifier for the token, which can be used to prevent reuse of the token. These tokens MUST only be used once, unless conditions for reuse were negotiated between the parties; any such negotiation is beyond the scope of this specification.

exp

REQUIRED. Expiration time on or after which the JWT MUST NOT be accepted for processing.

iat

OPTIONAL. Time at which the JWT was issued.

The JWT MAY contain other Claims. Any Claims used that are not understood MUST be ignored.

The authentication token MUST be sent as the value of the[OAuth.Assertions] (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) client_assertion parameter.

The value of the[OAuth.Assertions] (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) client_assertion_type parameter MUST be "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer", per [OAuth.JWT] (Jones, M., Campbell, B., and C. Mortimore, “JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.).

private_key_jwt

Clients that have registered a public key sign a JWT using that key. The Client authenticates in accordance with JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants (Jones, M., Campbell, B., and C. Mortimore, “JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) [OAuth.JWT] andAssertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) [OAuth.Assertions]. The JWT MUST contain the following REQUIRED Claim Values and MAY contain the following OPTIONAL Claim Values:

iss

REQUIRED. Issuer. This MUST contain the client_id of the OAuth Client.

sub

REQUIRED. Subject. This MUST contain the client_id of the OAuth Client.

aud

REQUIRED. Audience. The aud (audience) Claim. Value that identifies the Authorization Server as an intended audience. The Authorization Server MUST verify that it is an intended audience for the token. The Audience SHOULD be the URL of the Authorization Server's Token Endpoint.

jti

REQUIRED. JWT ID. A unique identifier for the token, which can be used to prevent reuse of the token. These tokens MUST only be used once, unless conditions for reuse were negotiated between the parties; any such negotiation is beyond the scope of this specification.

exp

REQUIRED. Expiration time on or after which the JWT MUST NOT be accepted for processing.

iat

OPTIONAL. Time at which the JWT was issued.

The JWT MAY contain other Claims. Any Claims used that are not understood MUST be ignored.

The authentication token MUST be sent as the value of the[OAuth.Assertions] (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) client_assertion parameter.

The value of the[OAuth.Assertions] (Campbell, B., Mortimore, C., Jones, M., and Y. Goland, “Assertion Framework for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.) client_assertion_type parameter MUST be "urn:ietf:params:oauth:client-assertion-type:jwt-bearer", per [OAuth.JWT] (Jones, M., Campbell, B., and C. Mortimore, “JSON Web Token (JWT) Profile for OAuth 2.0 Client Authentication and Authorization Grants,” May 2015.).

For example (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

POST /token HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

grant_type=authorization_code& code=i1WsRn1uB1& client_id=s6BhdRkqt3& client_assertion_type= urn%3Aietf%3Aparams%3Aoauth%3Aclient-assertion-type%3Ajwt-bearer& client_assertion=PHNhbWxwOl ... ZT

none

The Client does not authenticate itself at the Token Endpoint, either because it uses only the Implicit Flow (and so does not use the Token Endpoint) or because it is a Public Client with no Client Secret or other authentication mechanism.

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10. Signatures and Encryption

Depending on the transport through which the messages are sent, the integrity of the message might not be guaranteed and the originator of the message might not be authenticated. To mitigate these risks, ID Token, UserInfo Response, Request Object, and Client Authentication JWT values can utilizeJSON Web Signature (JWS) (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Signature (JWS),” May 2015.) [JWS] to sign their contents. To achieve message confidentiality, these values can also useJSON Web Encryption (JWE) (Jones, M. and J. Hildebrand, “JSON Web Encryption (JWE),” May 2015.) [JWE] to encrypt their contents.

When the message is both signed and encrypted, it MUST be signed first and then encrypted, per Section 16.14 (Signing and Encryption Order), with the result being a Nested JWT, as specified in [JWT] (Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, “JSON Web Token (JWT),” May 2015.). Note that all JWE encryption methods perform integrity checking.

The OP advertises its supported signing and encryption algorithms in its Discovery document or may supply this information by other means. The RP declares its required signing and encryption algorithms in its Dynamic Registration request or may communicate this information by other means.

The OP advertises its public keys via its Discovery document or may supply this information by other means. The RP declares its public keys via its Dynamic Registration request or may communicate this information by other means.

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10.1. Signing

The signing party MUST select a signature algorithm based on the algorithms supported by the recipient.

Asymmetric Signatures

When using RSA or ECDSA Signatures, the alg Header Parameter value of the JOSE Header MUST be set to an appropriate algorithm as defined in JSON Web Algorithms (Jones, M., “JSON Web Algorithms (JWA),” May 2015.) [JWA]. The private key used to sign the content MUST be associated with a public key used for signature verification published by the sender in its JWK Set document. If there are multiple keys in the referenced JWK Set document, akid value MUST be provided in the JOSE Header. The key usage of the respective keys MUST support signing.

Symmetric Signatures

When using MAC-based signatures, the alg Header Parameter value of the JOSE Header MUST be set to a MAC algorithm, as defined in JSON Web Algorithms (Jones, M., “JSON Web Algorithms (JWA),” May 2015.) [JWA]. The MAC key used is the octets of the UTF-8 representation of the client_secret value. See Section 16.19 (Symmetric Key Entropy) for a discussion of entropy requirements for client_secret values. Symmetric signatures MUST NOT be used by public (non-confidential) Clients because of their inability to keep secrets.

See Section 16.20 (Need for Signed Requests) for Security Considerations about the need for signed requests.

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10.1.1. Rotation of Asymmetric Signing Keys

Rotation of signing keys can be accomplished with the following approach. The signer publishes its keys in a JWK Set at its jwks_uri location and includes the kid of the signing key in the JOSE Header of each message to indicate to the verifier which key is to be used to validate the signature. Keys can be rolled over by periodically adding new keys to the JWK Set at the jwks_uri location. The signer can begin using a new key at its discretion and signals the change to the verifier using the kid value. The verifier knows to go back to the jwks_uri location to re-retrieve the keys when it sees an unfamiliarkid value. The JWK Set document at the jwks_uri SHOULD retain recently decommissioned signing keys for a reasonable period of time to facilitate a smooth transition.

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10.2. Encryption

The encrypting party MUST select an encryption algorithm based on the algorithms supported by the recipient.

Asymmetric Encryption: RSA

The public key to which the content was encrypted MUST be a public key used for encryption published by the recipient in its JWK Set document. If there are multiple keys in the referenced JWK Set document, akid value MUST be provided in the JOSE Header. Use the supported RSA encryption algorithm to encrypt a random Content Encryption Key to be used for encrypting the signed JWT. The key usage of the respective keys MUST include encryption.

Asymmetric Encryption: Elliptic Curve

Create an ephemeral Elliptic Curve public key for the epk element of the JOSE Header. The other public key used for the key agreement computation MUST be a public key published by the recipient in its JWK Set document. If there are multiple keys in the referenced JWK Set document, akid value MUST be provided in the JOSE Header. Use the ECDH-ES algorithm to agree upon a Content Encryption Key to be used for encrypting the signed JWT. The key usage of the respective keys MUST support encryption.

Symmetric Encryption

The symmetric encryption key is derived from theclient_secret value by using the left-most bits of a truncated SHA-2 hash of the octets of the UTF-8 representation of the client_secret. For keys of 256 or fewer bits, SHA-256 is used; for keys of 257-384 bits, SHA-384 is used; for keys of 385-512 bits, SHA-512 is used. The hash value MUST be truncated retaining the left-most bits to the appropriate bit length for the AES key wrapping or direct encryption algorithm used, for instance, truncating the SHA-256 hash to 128 bits for A128KW. If a symmetric key with greater than 512 bits is needed, a different method of deriving the key from the client_secret would have to be defined by an extension. Symmetric encryption MUST NOT be used by public (non-confidential) Clients because of their inability to keep secrets.

See Section 16.21 (Need for Encrypted Requests) for Security Considerations about the need for encrypted requests.

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10.2.1. Rotation of Asymmetric Encryption Keys

Rotating encryption keys necessarily uses a different process than the one for signing keys because the encrypting party starts the process and thus cannot rely on a change in kid as a signal that keys need to change. The encrypting party still uses the kid Header Parameter in the JWE to tell the decrypting party which private key to use to decrypt, however, the encrypting party needs to first select the most appropriate key from those provided in the JWK Set at the recipient's jwks_uri location.

To rotate keys, the decrypting party can publish new keys at its jwks_uri location and remove from the JWK Set those that are being decommissioned. The jwks_uri SHOULD include a Cache-Control header in the response that contains a max-age directive, as defined in RFC 7234 (Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke, Ed., “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching,” June 2014.) [RFC7234], which enables the encrypting party to safely cache the JWK Set and not have to re-retrieve the document for every encryption event. The decrypting party SHOULD remove decommissioned keys from the JWK Set referenced by jwks_uri but retain them internally for some reasonable period of time, coordinated with the cache duration, to facilitate a smooth transition between keys by allowing the encrypting party some time to obtain the new keys. The cache duration SHOULD also be coordinated with the issuance of new signing keys, as described in Section 10.1.1 (Rotation of Asymmetric Signing Keys).

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11. Offline Access

OpenID Connect defines the following scope value to request offline access:

offline_access

OPTIONAL. This scope value requests that an OAuth 2.0 Refresh Token be issued that can be used to obtain an Access Token that grants access to the End-User's UserInfo Endpoint even when the End-User is not present (not logged in).

When offline access is requested, a prompt parameter value of consent MUST be used unless other conditions for processing the request permitting offline access to the requested resources are in place. The OP MUST always obtain consent to returning a Refresh Token that enables offline access to the requested resources. A previously saved user consent is not always sufficient to grant offline access.

Upon receipt of a scope parameter containing theoffline_access value, the Authorization Server:

• MUST ensure that the prompt parameter containsconsent unless other conditions for processing the request permitting offline access to the requested resources are in place; unless one or both of these conditions are fulfilled, then it MUST ignore the offline_access request,
• MUST ignore the offline_access request unless the Client is using a response_type value that would result in an Authorization Code being returned,
• MUST explicitly receive or have consent for offline access when the registered application_type is web,
• SHOULD explicitly receive or have consent for offline access when the registered application_type is native.

The use of Refresh Tokens is not exclusive to theoffline_access use case. The Authorization Server MAY grant Refresh Tokens in other contexts that are beyond the scope of this specification.

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12. Using Refresh Tokens

A request to the Token Endpoint can also use a Refresh Token by using the grant_type valuerefresh_token, as described in Section 6 ofOAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749]. This section defines the behaviors for OpenID Connect Authorization Servers when Refresh Tokens are used.

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12.1. Refresh Request

To refresh an Access Token, the Client MUST authenticate to the Token Endpoint using the authentication method registered for its client_id, as documented inSection 9 (Client Authentication). The Client sends the parameters via HTTP POST to the Token Endpoint using Form Serialization, per Section 13.2 (Form Serialization).

The following is a non-normative example of a Refresh Request (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

POST /token HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &client_secret=some_secret12345 &grant_type=refresh_token &refresh_token=8xLOxBtZp8 &scope=openid%20profile

The Authorization Server MUST validate the Refresh Token, MUST verify that it was issued to the Client, and must verify that the Client successfully authenticated it has a Client Authentication method.

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12.2. Successful Refresh Response

Upon successful validation of the Refresh Token, the response body is the Token Response of Section 3.1.3.3 (Successful Token Response) except that it might not contain an id_token.

If an ID Token is returned as a result of a token refresh request, the following requirements apply:

• its iss Claim Value MUST be the same as in the ID Token issued when the original authentication occurred,
• its sub Claim Value MUST be the same as in the ID Token issued when the original authentication occurred,
• its iat Claim MUST represent the time that the new ID Token is issued,
• its aud Claim Value MUST be the same as in the ID Token issued when the original authentication occurred,
• if the ID Token contains an auth_time Claim, its value MUST represent the time of the original authentication - not the time that the new ID token is issued,
• if the implementation is using extensions (which are beyond the scope of this specification) that result in the azp (authorized party) Claim being present, those extensions might specify that its azp Claim Value MUST be the same as in the ID Token issued when the original authentication occurred; likewise, they might specify that if no azp Claim was present in the original ID Token, one MUST NOT be present in the new ID Token,
• it SHOULD NOT have a nonce Claim, even when the ID Token issued at the time of the original authentication contained nonce; however, if it is present, its value MUST be the same as in the ID Token issued at the time of the original authentication, and
• otherwise, the same rules apply as apply when issuing an ID Token at the time of the original authentication.

The following is a non-normative example of a Refresh Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/json Cache-Control: no-store

{ "access_token": "TlBN45jURg", "token_type": "Bearer", "refresh_token": "9yNOxJtZa5", "expires_in": 3600 }

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12.3. Refresh Error Response

If the Refresh Request is invalid or unauthorized, the Authorization Server returns the Token Error Response as defined in Section 5.2 of OAuth 2.0 (Hardt, D., Ed., “The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework,” October 2012.) [RFC6749].

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13. Serializations

Messages are serialized using one of the following methods:

1. Query String Serialization
2. Form Serialization
3. JSON Serialization

This section describes the syntax of these serialization methods; other sections describe when they can and must be used. Note that not all methods can be used for all messages.

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13.1. Query String Serialization

In order to serialize the parameters using the Query String Serialization, the Client constructs the string by adding the parameters and values to the query component of a URL using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format as defined by [W3C.SPSD‑html401‑20180327] (, “HTML 4.01 Specification,” March 2018.). Query String Serialization is typically used in HTTP GET requests. The same serialization method is also used when adding parameters to the fragment component of a URL.

The following is a non-normative example of this serialization (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

GET /authorize? response_type=code &scope=openid &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com

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13.2. Form Serialization

Parameters and their values are Form Serialized by adding the parameter names and values to the entity body of the HTTP request using the application/x-www-form-urlencoded format as defined by [W3C.SPSD‑html401‑20180327] (, “HTML 4.01 Specification,” March 2018.). Form Serialization is typically used in HTTP POST requests.

The following is a non-normative example of this serialization (with line wraps within values for display purposes only):

POST /authorize HTTP/1.1 Host: server.example.com Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded

response_type=code &scope=openid &client_id=s6BhdRkqt3 &redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fclient.example.org%2Fcb

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13.3. JSON Serialization

The parameters are serialized into a JSON object structure by adding each parameter at the highest structure level. Parameter names and string values are represented as JSON strings. Numerical values are represented as JSON numbers. Boolean values are represented as JSON booleans. Omitted parameters and parameters with no value SHOULD be omitted from the object and not represented by a JSON null value, unless otherwise specified. A parameter MAY have a JSON object or a JSON array as its value.

The following is a non-normative example of this serialization:

{ "access_token": "SlAV32hkKG", "token_type": "Bearer", "expires_in": 3600, "refresh_token": "8xLOxBtZp8" }

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14. String Operations

Processing some OpenID Connect messages requires comparing values in the messages to known values. For example, the Claim Names returned by the UserInfo Endpoint might be compared to specific Claim Names such as sub. Comparing Unicode [UNICODE] (The Unicode Consortium, “The Unicode Standard,” .) strings, however, has significant security implications.

Therefore, comparisons between JSON strings and other Unicode strings MUST be performed as specified below:

1. Remove any JSON applied escaping to produce an array of Unicode code points.
2. Unicode Normalization [USA15] (Whistler, K., “Unicode Normalization Forms,” August 2023.) MUST NOT be applied at any point to either the JSON string or to the string it is to be compared against.
3. Comparisons between the two strings MUST be performed as a Unicode code point to code point equality comparison.

In several places, this specification uses space-delimited lists of strings. In all such cases, a single ASCII space character (0x20) MUST be used as the delimiter.

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15. Implementation Considerations

This specification defines features used by both Relying Parties and OpenID Providers. It is expected that some OpenID Providers will require static, out-of-band configuration of RPs using them, whereas others will support dynamic usage by RPs without a pre-established relationship between them. For that reason, the mandatory-to-implement features for OPs are listed below in two groups: the first for all OPs and the second for "Dynamic" OpenID Providers.

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15.1. Mandatory to Implement Features for All OpenID Providers

All OpenID Providers MUST implement the following features defined in this specification. This list augments the set of features that are already listed elsewhere as being "REQUIRED" or are described with a "MUST", and so is not, by itself, a comprehensive set of implementation requirements for OPs.

Signing ID Tokens with RSA SHA-256

OPs MUST support signing ID Tokens with the RSA SHA-256 algorithm (an alg value ofRS256), unless the OP only supports returning ID Tokens from the Token Endpoint (as is the case for the Authorization Code Flow) and only allows Clients to register specifyingnone as the requested ID Token signing algorithm.

Prompt Parameter

OPs MUST support the prompt parameter, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint), including the specified user interface behaviors such as none and login.

Display Parameter

OPs MUST support the display parameter, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint). (Note that the minimum level of support required for this parameter is simply that its use must not result in an error.)

Preferred Locales

OPs MUST support requests for preferred languages and scripts for the user interface and for Claims via theui_locales andclaims_locales request parameters, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint). (Note that the minimum level of support required for these parameters is simply to have their use not result in errors.)

Authentication Time

OPs MUST support returning the time at which the End-User authenticated via the auth_time Claim, when requested, as defined in Section 2 (ID Token).

Maximum Authentication Age

OPs MUST support enforcing a maximum authentication age via the max_age parameter, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint).

Authentication Context Class Reference

OPs MUST support requests for specific Authentication Context Class Reference values via the acr_values parameter, as defined in Section 3.1.2 (Authorization Endpoint). (Note that the minimum level of support required for this parameter is simply to have its use not result in an error.)

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15.2. Mandatory to Implement Features for Dynamic OpenID Providers

In addition to the features listed above, OpenID Providers supporting dynamic establishment of relationships with RPs that they do not have a pre-configured relationship with MUST also implement the following features defined in this and related specifications.

Response Types

These OpenID Providers MUST support theid_token Response Type and all that are not Self-Issued OPs MUST also support thecode andid_token token Response Types.

Discovery

These OPs MUST support Discovery, as defined inOpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., and E. Jay, “OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Discovery].

Dynamic Registration

These OPs MUST support Dynamic Client Registration, as defined inOpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration].

UserInfo Endpoint

All dynamic OPs that issue Access Tokens MUST support the UserInfo Endpoint, as defined in Section 5.3 (UserInfo Endpoint). (Self-Issued OPs do not issue Access Tokens.)

Public Keys Published as Bare Keys

These OPs MUST publish their public keys as bare JWK keys (which MAY also be accompanied by X.509 representations of those keys).

Request URI

These OPs MUST support requests made using a Request Object value that is retrieved from a Request URI that is provided with the request_uri parameter, as defined in Section 6.2 (Passing a Request Object by Reference).

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15.3. Discovery and Registration

Some OpenID Connect installations can use a pre-configured set of OpenID Providers and/or Relying Parties. In those cases, it might not be necessary to support dynamic discovery of information about identities or services or dynamic registration of Clients.

However, if installations choose to support unanticipated interactions between Relying Parties and OpenID Providers that do not have pre-configured relationships, they SHOULD accomplish this by implementing the facilities defined in the OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., Jones, M., and E. Jay, “OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Discovery] and OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 (Sakimura, N., Bradley, J., and M. Jones, “OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0,” December 2023.) [OpenID.Registration] specifications.

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15.4. Mandatory to Implement Features for Relying Parties

In general, it is up to Relying Parties which features they use when interacting with OpenID Providers. However, some choices are dictated by the nature of their OAuth Client, such as whether it is a Confidential Client, capable of keeping secrets, in which case the Authorization Code Flow may be appropriate, or whether it is a Public Client, for instance, a User Agent Based Application or a statically registered Native Application, in which case the Implicit Flow may be appropriate.

When using OpenID Connect features, those listed as being "REQUIRED" or are described with a "MUST" are mandatory to implement, when used by a Relying Party. Likewise, those features that are described as "OPTIONAL" need not be used or supported unless they provide value in the particular application context. Finally, when interacting with OpenID Providers that support Discovery, the OP's Discovery document can be used to dynamically determine which OP features are available for use by the RP.

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15.5. Implementation Notes

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15.5.1. Authorization Code Implementation Notes

When using the Authorization Code or Hybrid flows, an ID Token is returned from the Token Endpoint in response to a Token Request using an Authorization Code. Some implementations may choose to encode state about the ID Token to be returned in the Authorization Code value. Others may use the Authorization Code value as an index into a database storing this state.

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15.5.2. Nonce Implementation Notes

The nonce parameter value needs to include per-session state and be unguessable to attackers. One method to achieve this for Web Server Clients is to store a cryptographically random value as an HttpOnly session cookie and use a cryptographic hash of the value as the nonce parameter. In that case, the nonce in the returned ID Token is compared to the hash of the session cookie to detect ID Token replay by third parties. A related method applicable to JavaScript Clients and other Browser-Based Clients is to store the cryptographically random value in HTML5 local storage and use a cryptographic hash of this value.

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15.5.3. Redirect URI Fragment Handling Implementation Notes

When response parameters are returned in the Redirection URI fragment value, the Client needs to have the User Agent parse the fragment encoded values and pass them to on to the Client's processing logic for consumption. User Agents that have direct access to cryptographic APIs may be able to be self-contained, for instance, with all Client code being written in JavaScript.

However, if the Client does not run entirely in the User Agent, one way to achieve this is to post them to a Web Server Client for validation.

The following is an example of a JavaScript file that a Client might host at itsredirect_uri. This is loaded by the redirect from the Authorization Server. The fragment component is parsed and then sent by POST to a URI that will validate and use the information received.

Following is a non-normative example of a Redirect URI response:

GET /cb HTTP/1.1 Host: client.example.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html