This document is intended as a list of best practices and recommendations that are applicable when using vc-authn-oidc as means of authorization provider for web applications.
When using vc-authn-oidc to secure a web application, the request to the identity provider must include a pres_req_conf_id query parameter set to the id of the vc-authn-oidc configuration that must be used to authenticate with the Identity Provider.
The query parameter - however - can be changed dynamically: this is a desired behaviour, as it allows web applications to dynamically request the proof-request for the circumstance/scenario that is more appropriate.
Similarly to checking a user's roles, when an id token is received from vc-authn the application should check that the value of the pres_req_conf_id attribute on the id token matches the value of the query parameter submitted to the IdP in the first place. If this is not the case, the user authentication may have been successful, but it did not satisfy the initial requirements (another example could be a web application that allows authentication using multiple Identity Providers, but only one of those is authorized to provide extended privileges to the user).
Starting with v2.0.0, claims populated by values provided in a proof-request are no longer individually added to the root of the JWT issued by VC-AuthN. This decision was made to limit the number of attribute mappers required in systems with more than one proof-request configuration available for relying parties to consume when authenticating.
Instead, all claims are packaged in the vc_presented_attributes returned at the root of the JWT. Example:
{
...
"vc_presented_attributes": {
"email": "[email protected]",
"given_name": "Some",
"family_name": "One"
},
...
}