Security of Mobile Single Sign-On: A Rational Reconstruction of Facebook Login Solution

Giada Sciarretta, Alessandro Armando, Roberto Carbone, Silvio Ranise

2016

Abstract

While there exist many secure authentication and authorization solutions for web applications, their adaptation in the mobile context is a new and open challenge. In this paper, we argue that the lack of a proper reference model for Single Sign-On (SSO) for mobile native applications drives many social network vendors (acting as Identity Providers) to develop their own mobile solution. However, as the implementation details are not well documented, it is difficult to establish the proper security level of these solutions. We thus provide a rational reconstruction of the Facebook SSO flow, including a comparison with the OAuth 2.0 standard and a security analysis obtained testing the Facebook SSO reconstruction against a set of identified SSO attacks. Based on this analysis, we have modified and generalized the Facebook solution proposing a native SSO solution capable of solving the identified vulnerabilities and accommodating any Identity Provider.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sciarretta G., Armando A., Carbone R. and Ranise S. (2016). Security of Mobile Single Sign-On: A Rational Reconstruction of Facebook Login Solution . In Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016) ISBN 978-989-758-196-0, pages 147-158. DOI: 10.5220/0005969001470158

in Bibtex Style

@conference{secrypt16,
author={Giada Sciarretta and Alessandro Armando and Roberto Carbone and Silvio Ranise},
title={Security of Mobile Single Sign-On: A Rational Reconstruction of Facebook Login Solution},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)},
year={2016},
pages={147-158},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005969001470158},
isbn={978-989-758-196-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications - Volume 4: SECRYPT, (ICETE 2016)
TI - Security of Mobile Single Sign-On: A Rational Reconstruction of Facebook Login Solution
SN - 978-989-758-196-0
AU - Sciarretta G.
AU - Armando A.
AU - Carbone R.
AU - Ranise S.
PY - 2016
SP - 147
EP - 158
DO - 10.5220/0005969001470158