The OIDC Provider from BankID supports two general classes of Access Tokens .can be categorized in two classes:
- By-reference in terms of standard Bearer Tokens. Tokens of this kind comes with corresponding support for an arbitrary value that must be verified via Introspection to determine the Authorization Context for any particular token value.
- Self-contained in terms JSON WebTokens (JWT) that are signed (JWS) and optionally also encrypted (JWE). Tokens of this kind contain all required information to determine the Authorization Context. Such tokens may optionally also be verified via Introspection or for augmenting the token with additional claims .
In either case, the resulting token (value) is ment for use as a standard Bearer Tokens in the request to the value-added service for which the token regulates access.
The Authorization Context of an Access Token referes to attributes such as:
- The issuer (
iss)of the access token. See corresponding claim in ID Token. - The subject identifier (
sub)of the access token, ie. a reference to the end-user (resource owner) that authorized the access token. See corresponding claim in ID Token. - Intended audience (
aud)for the access token, ie. a reference to the Protected Resouce Value-Added Service (VAS) that the access token regulates access to. Note that this is not related to the corresponding claim in the ID Token. The audience for the ID Token (being the OIDC Client) is different from the audience for an Access Token (being the Resource Server VAS in question). - Active state / expiry (
exp)ofthe access token - The specific set of scopes and claims associated with the access token, ie. the set included in the Authorize request that subsequently resulted in the issuance of the Access Token in a reponse to a Token request
The OIDC Provider issues different types of Access Tokens to OIDC Clients depending on the requested types of Protected Resources (as given by the Scopes and Claims contained in the request).The OIDC Provider returns a Default Token in terms of a standard bearer token of generic nature having Default Acess Token in this release of the OIDC Provider from BankID has its origin from Apache CXF and has the following characteristics:
- By-reference token with corresponding support for validation via introspect
- Standard beared token
- Works with any audience
- Works with any set of scopes and claims
- Has a lifetime of 300 seconds
The Default Token The default token has generic characteristics and can be used as a general-purpose token unless a more specific or tailor-made token is desired. The default token is public since it can be used by any Resource Server Value-added Service (VAS) that is registered with (and hence trust) the OIDC Provider from BankID. The TINFO (Userinfo) service accepts the DefaultToken. The PSD2 Service does in contrast defines a set of customized tokens, including both by-reference tokens and self-contained tokens, for access to Protected Resources.. The default token is used by the TINFO-service.
See the list of supported Value-added Services (VAS) for further information of Access Tokens for each such service.
Other types of access tokens may be added to support authorization for Protected Resources beyond those currently supported. One particular example is to add support for private bearer tokens, ie. tokens working only with specific Resource Servers (private audiance). Other attributes such at the lifetime and allowed OIDC Clients can be tailored fo such tokens to match any specific requirements.