Federated custom tcp binding (and http binding)

This is a work in progress, but so far it allows me to take a token from ACS (Azure Access Control Services) - I followed the basic SDK/MSDN advice to set up a relying party, provider and rules - and send it to a service (acting as Relying Party) by way of authentication.

I was particularly interested to try this with TCP binding and it looks like custom binding is the only way.

For the http I started with the Federated HTTP binding, but since the custom binding took shape, you get more control this way, so I formulated an https equivalent here too.

Note this is for illustration purposes it's certainly not production ready.

1. Get token from ACS

  

        private static SecurityToken GetIdentityProviderToken(string acsEndpoint, string serviceEndpoint)
        {
            var factory =
                new WSTrustChannelFactory(new UserNameWSTrustBinding(SecurityMode.TransportWithMessageCredential), acsEndpoint)
                {
                    TrustVersion = TrustVersion.WSTrust13
                };

            factory.Credentials.ClientCertificate.SetCertificate(
                StoreLocation.LocalMachine,
                StoreName.My,
                X509FindType.FindBySubjectName,
                "[cert dns/hostname]");

            var rst = new RequestSecurityToken
            {
                RequestType = RequestTypes.Issue,
                AppliesTo = new EndpointAddress(serviceEndpoint),
                //specify URI realm that ACS token will apply to
                //AppliesTo = new EndpointAddress( new Uri( "urn:federation:customer:222:agent:11" ) ),
                KeyType = KeyTypes.Symmetric
            };

            factory.Credentials.UserName.UserName = ClientUsername;
            factory.Credentials.UserName.Password = ClientPassword;
            var channel = factory.CreateChannel();

            return channel.Issue(rst);
        } 

2. Http Client config (code)

 

        private static ChannelFactory GetCustomHttpBoundService(SecurityToken token, string address)
        {


            var securityBootStrap = SecurityBindingElement.CreateIssuedTokenForCertificateBindingElement(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters());
            var security = SecurityBindingElement.CreateSecureConversationBindingElement(securityBootStrap, requireCancellation: true);
            
            Console.WriteLine("Include timestamp " + security.IncludeTimestamp);
            Console.WriteLine("Allow insecure transport " + security.AllowInsecureTransport);
            Console.WriteLine("Client: Detect replays " + security.LocalClientSettings.DetectReplays);
            Console.WriteLine("Client: Max clock skew " + security.LocalClientSettings.MaxClockSkew);
            Console.WriteLine("Server: Detect replays " + security.LocalServiceSettings.DetectReplays);
            Console.WriteLine("Server: Max clock skew " + security.LocalServiceSettings.MaxClockSkew);


            var customBinding = new CustomBinding(new List
            {  
                security,
                new BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement(),
                new HttpsTransportBindingElement()
            });

            var factory = new ChannelFactory(customBinding,
                new EndpointAddress(new Uri(address), EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("[cert dns/hostname]")));
            factory.ConfigureChannelFactory();

            Debug.Assert(factory.Credentials != null);
            factory.Credentials.SupportInteractive = false;
            factory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.SetDefaultCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine,
                StoreName.My,
                X509FindType.FindBySubjectName,
                "[cert dns/hostname]");

            return factory;
        }

3. TCP Client config (code)

  

        private static ChannelFactory GetCustomTcpBoundService(SecurityToken token, string address)
        {

            var securityBootStrap = SecurityBindingElement.CreateIssuedTokenForCertificateBindingElement(new IssuedSecurityTokenParameters());
            var security = SecurityBindingElement.CreateSecureConversationBindingElement(securityBootStrap, requireCancellation: true);
      
            Console.WriteLine("Include timestamp " + security.IncludeTimestamp);
            Console.WriteLine("Allow insecure transport " + security.AllowInsecureTransport);
            Console.WriteLine("Client: Detect replays " + security.LocalClientSettings.DetectReplays);
            Console.WriteLine("Client: Max clock skew " + security.LocalClientSettings.MaxClockSkew);
            Console.WriteLine("Server: Detect replays " + security.LocalServiceSettings.DetectReplays);
            Console.WriteLine("Server: Max clock skew " + security.LocalServiceSettings.MaxClockSkew);

            var customBinding = new CustomBinding(new List
            {  
                security,
                new BinaryMessageEncodingBindingElement(),
                new SslStreamSecurityBindingElement {RequireClientCertificate = false},
                new TcpTransportBindingElement()
            });

            var factory = new ChannelFactory(customBinding,
                new EndpointAddress( new Uri(address),  EndpointIdentity.CreateDnsIdentity("[cert dns/hostname]")));
            factory.ConfigureChannelFactory();
       
            Debug.Assert(factory.Credentials != null);
            factory.Credentials.SupportInteractive = false;
            factory.Credentials.ServiceCertificate.SetDefaultCertificate(StoreLocation.LocalMachine,
                StoreName.My,
                X509FindType.FindBySubjectName,
                "[cert dns/hostname]");

            return factory;
        }

4. Http Server config

  


        <binding name="customfedhttps">
          <security authenticationmode="SecureConversation" requiresecuritycontextcancellation="true">
            <secureconversationbootstrap authenticationmode="IssuedTokenForCertificate">
            </secureconversationbootstrap>
          </security>
          <binarymessageencoding>
          <httpstransport requireclientcertificate="false">
        </httpstransport></binarymessageencoding>
       </binding>

5. TCP Server config

  


        <binding name="customfedtcp">
          <security authenticationmode="SecureConversation" requiresecuritycontextcancellation="true">
            <secureconversationbootstrap authenticationmode="IssuedTokenForCertificate">
            </secureconversationbootstrap>
          </security>
          <binarymessageencoding>
          <sslstreamsecurity requireclientcertificate="false">
          <tcptransport>
        </tcptransport></sslstreamsecurity></binarymessageencoding>
        </binding>

6. Server behaviour

  

    <behaviors>
      <servicebehaviors>
        <behavior name="fedbehaviour">

          <servicemetadata httpsgetenabled="true">
          <federatedservicehostconfiguration>
          
        </federatedservicehostconfiguration></servicemetadata></behavior>
      </servicebehaviors>
    </behaviors>

    <extensions>
      <behaviorextensions>
        <add name="federatedServiceHostConfiguration" type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Configuration.ConfigureServiceHostBehaviorExtensionElement, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">
      </add></behaviorextensions>
    </extensions>

7. Identity model config

  

  <microsoft.identitymodel>
    <service>
      <audienceuris>
        <add value="https://localhost/Service1.svc">
        <add value="net.tcp://localhost:997/Service2.svc">
      </add></add></audienceuris>

      <servicecertificate>
        <certificatereference findvalue="[cert dns/hostname]" storelocation="LocalMachine" storename="My" x509findtype="FindBySubjectName">
      </certificatereference></servicecertificate>

      <issuernameregistry type="Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.ConfigurationBasedIssuerNameRegistry, Microsoft.IdentityModel, Version=3.5.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35">
        <trustedissuers>
          <add name="[cert dns/hostname]" thumbprint="[cert thumb print]">
        </add></trustedissuers>
      </issuernameregistry>

      <certificatevalidation certificatevalidationmode="None">

      
    </certificatevalidation></service>
  </microsoft.identitymodel>

Useful links:

How to create a federated duplex custom binding

Least privilege (Dominick Baier’s blog)

Technet: Identity flow

MSDN username ACS example

Cibrax blog

Stack overflow – Q/A: imperative custom binding

ID8024 Warnings

Marshalled Thoughts –TCP federation with WIF