googleapis / googleapis/google-cloud-node
google-auth-library: support client-side Credential Access Boundaries (Java ClientSideCredentialAccessBoundaryFactory equivalent)
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### Feature request
Support client-side Credential Access Boundaries in `google-auth-library-nodejs` — the equivalent of Java's [`ClientSideCredentialAccessBoundaryFactory`](https://github.com/googleapis/google-auth-library-java/tree/main/cab-token-generator).
### Background
The Node library ships the server-side `DownscopedClient`, which performs one STS token exchange per downscoped token. Google's IAM documentation ([Create a downscoped credential](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/create-downscoped-short-lived-credentials)) now describes the client-side approach — exchange once for an access boundary intermediary token, then mint downscoped tokens locally with varying boundary rules, no STS round trip per token — and calls it "the recommended approach because it provides better performance, scalability, and future feature compatibility."
Today that implementation exists only in Java (`cab-token-generator` module, `ClientSideCredentialAccessBoundaryFactory`). Searching the googleapis org, there is no Node, Python, or Go implementation and no open tracking issue, so filing this one for Node.
### Use case
A token broker minting many unique prefix-scoped Cloud Storage tokens at high frequency: per-tenant object-name prefixes, one short-lived token per tenant session. With the server-side `DownscopedClient`, every unique boundary costs an STS exchange against the `sts.googleapis.com` token-exchange quota (6,000/project/minute). Caching per tenant helps, but fresh-mint demand scales with distinct active tenants; client-side minting removes the ceiling entirely, as the docs note.
### Questions
1. Is client-side CAB support planned for `google-auth-library-nodejs`? Any timeline?
2. If it is not planned soon: is the intermediary-token wire format (the protobuf-encoded boundary + encryption scheme visible in Java's `cab-token-generator`) considered stable and supported for third-party client implementations, or is it internal and subject to change?
### Environment
`google-auth-library` 10.x on Node 24 / Bun, tokens consumed by Cloud Storage JSON/XML APIs.
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Direzione di ricerca
Inizia esaminando il modulo Java `cab-token-generator` e `ClientSideCredentialAccessBoundaryFactory`, quindi confrontali con il `DownscopedClient` esistente della libreria Node. Determina il formato del token intermedio supportato e l'API Node necessaria per la generazione locale; il lavoro sarà completo quando il supporto CAB lato client sarà implementato e saranno risolti l'interoperabilità e il comportamento d'uso richiesti.
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Valutazione
- Stack tecnologico
- google-cloud, nodejs, typescript
- Ambito
- authentication, backend, security
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- Funzionalità
- Difficoltà
- 5/5
- Tempo stimato
- Più di una settimana
- Stato di attività
- Tranquilla
- Chiarezza
- Da chiarire
- Idoneità per principianti
- 30/100