cap

cap (collection of authentication packages) provides a collection of related packages which enable support for OIDC, JWT Verification and Distributed Claims.

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Contributing

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oidc package

A package for writing clients that integrate with OIDC Providers. Primary types provided by the package are:

1. Request
2. Token
3. Config
4. Provider

The package also provides callbacks (in the form of http.HandlerFunc) for handling OIDC provider responses to authorization code flow (with optional PKCE) and implicit flow authentication attempts.

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Example of a provider using an authorization code flow:

// Create a new provider config
pc, err := oidc.NewConfig(
    "http://your-issuer.com/",
    "your_client_id",
    "your_client_secret",
    []oidc.Alg{oidc.RS256},
    []string{"https://your_redirect_url"},
)
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}

// Create a provider
p, err := oidc.NewProvider(pc)
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
defer p.Done()


// Create a Request for a user's authorization code flow authentication attempt, 
// with a 2 min timeout for  completion. 
oidcRequest, err := oidc.NewRequest(2 * time.Minute, "https://your_redirect_url")
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}


// Create an auth URL
authURL, err := p.AuthURL(ctx, oidcRequest)
if err != nil {
    // handle error
}
fmt.Println("open url to kick-off authentication: ", authURL)

Create a http.Handler for OIDC authentication response redirects.

func NewHandler(ctx context.Context, p *oidc.Provider, r callback.RequestReader) (http.HandlerFunc, error)
    if p == nil { 
        // handle error
    }
    if rw == nil {
        // handle error
    }
    return func(w http.ResponseWriter, req *http.Request) {
        oidcRequest, err := rw.Read(ctx, req.FormValue("state"))
        if err != nil {
            // handle error
        }
        // Exchange(...) will verify the tokens before returning. 
        token, err := p.Exchange(ctx, oidcRequest, req.FormValue("state"), req.FormValue("code"))
        if err != nil {
            // handle error
        }
        var claims map[string]interface{}
        if err := token.IDToken().Claims(&claims); err != nil {
            // handle error
        }

        // Get the user's claims via the provider's UserInfo endpoint
        var infoClaims map[string]interface{}
        err = p.UserInfo(ctx, token.StaticTokenSource(), claims["sub"].(string), &infoClaims)
        if err != nil {
            // handle error
        }
        resp := struct {
		    IDTokenClaims  map[string]interface{}
		    UserInfoClaims map[string]interface{}
		}{claims, infoClaims}
		enc := json.NewEncoder(w)
		if err := enc.Encode(resp); err != nil {
			// handle error
        }
    }
}

jwt package

Package jwt provides signature verification and claims set validation for JSON Web Tokens (JWT) of the JSON Web Signature (JWS) form.

JWT claims set validation provided by the package includes the option to validate all registered claim names defined in rfc7519#section-4.1.

JOSE header validation provided by the the package includes the option to validate the "alg" (Algorithm) Header Parameter defined in rfc7515#section-4.1.

JWT signature verification is supported by providing keys from the following sources:

• JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) URL
• OIDC Discovery mechanism
• Local public keys

JWT signature verification supports the following asymmetric algorithms defined in rfc7518.html#section-3.1:

Identifier	Signing Algorithm
RS256	RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-256
RS384	RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-384
RS512	RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 using SHA-512
ES256	ECDSA using P-256 and SHA-256
ES384	ECDSA using P-384 and SHA-384
ES512	ECDSA using P-521 and SHA-512
PS256	RSASSA-PSS using SHA-256 and MGF1 with SHA-256
PS384	RSASSA-PSS using SHA-384 and MGF1 with SHA-384
PS512	RSASSA-PSS using SHA-512 and MGF1 with SHA-512
EdDSA	Ed25519 using SHA-512

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Example usage of JWT signature verification and claims set validation using keys from a JWKS URL:

ctx := context.Background()

keySet, err := jwt.NewJSONWebKeySet(ctx, "your_jwks_url", "your_jwks_ca_pem")
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

validator, err := jwt.NewValidator(keySet)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

expected := jwt.Expected{
	Issuer:            "your_expected_issuer",
	Subject:           "your_expected_subject",
	ID:                "your_expected_jwt_id",
	Audiences:         []string{"your_expected_audiences"},
	SigningAlgorithms: []jwt.Alg{jwt.RS256},
}

token := "header.payload.signature"
claims, err := validator.Validate(ctx, token, expected)
if err != nil {
	log.Fatal(err)
}

For additional documentation and usage examples, see jwt/README.md.

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ldap package

ldap is a package for writing clients that authenticate using Active Directory or LDAP.

Primary types provided by the package:

• ldap.Client
• ldap.ClientConfig

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Example usage

An abbreviated example of authenticating a user:

client, err := ldap.NewClient(ctx, &clientConfig)
if err != nil { 
  // handle error appropriately
}

// authenticate and get the user's groups as well.
result, err := client.Authenticate(ctx, username, passwd, ldap.WithGroups())
if err != nil { 
  // handle error appropriately
}

if result.Success {
  // user successfully authenticated...
  if len(result.Groups) > 0 {
    // we found some groups associated with the authenticated user...
  }
}

saml package

A package for writing clients that integrate with SAML Providers.

The SAML library orients mainly on the implementation profile for federation interoperability (also known as interoperable SAML), a set of software conformance requirements intended to facilitate interoperability within the context of full mesh identity federations. It supports the Web Browser SSO profile with HTTP-Post and HTTP-Redirect as supported service bindings. The default SAML settings follow the requirements of the interoperable SAML deployment profile.

Example usage

    // Create a new saml config providing the necessary provider information:
    cfg, err := saml.NewConfig(<entityID>, <acs>, <metadata>, options...)
	// handle error

    // Use the config to create the service provider:
    sp, err := saml.NewServiceProvider(cfg)
    // handle error

    // With the service provider you can create saml authentication requests:

    // Generate a saml auth request with HTTP Post-Binding
    template, err := sp.AuthRequestPost("relay state", options...)
    // handle error

    // Generate a saml auth request with HTTP Request-Binding
    redirectURL, err := sp.AuthRequestRedirect("relay state", options...)
    // handle error

    // Parsing a SAML response:
    r.ParseForm()
    samlResp := r.PostForm.Get("SAMLResponse")

    response, err := sp.ParseResponse(samlResp, "Response ID", options...)
    // handle error

You can find the full demo code in the saml/demo package.