CloudServices/FirefoxAccount/TokenServerFlows

Firefox Account Token Server flows

The following flows are for Token Server authenticated services, such as AitC and next-generation Sync.

Create Firefox Account

• provide UI for choosing user:pass pair
• perform the FxAP Account Creation dance to register a user:pass pair, possibly providing UI for accepting TOS
• perform the FxAP Authentication dance to authenticate as user:pass

Initialize Firefox Account

• locally generate keypair
• perform the FxAP Provisioning dance to certify keypair
• locally wrap keypair (using entropy from pass)
• perform the (as-yet-unspecified) FxAP Wrapping dance to PUT the wrapped keypair

Initialize Token Server

• locally generate assertion for Token Server
• perform the Token Server exchange dance to get token from assertion, possibly providing UI for accepting TOS

Use Firefox Account to access Token Server authenticated Service

• locally verify certificate is valid; if not, either re-provision existing key or re-Initialize Account
• perform the FxAP Authentication dance to authenticate as user:pass
• perform the (as-yet-unspecified) FxAP wrapping dance to GET the wrapped keypair
• locally unwrap keypair (using entropy from pass)
• locally generate assertion for Service
• perform the Token Server exchange dance to get token from assertion
• use token to HMAC authenticate HTTP requests to Service

Whiteboard captures

The flows above were distilled from the following whiteboards:

End to end flow.

Desktop account creation detail.

Desktop login detail.

Key wrapping detail.

These were all discussed during the Oct. 1-5 services-integration non-work-week.