jakartaee / jakartaee/security

Add authentication mechanism for OpaqueToken

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Description

Mentioned in #255, OAuth 2.1 still support opaque token instead of JWT token, and opaque token is used widely in the real world application.

When decoding the user claims, instead of decoding the jwt token itself, it sends a Http request to the predefined `userInfoUri` attribute.

I am not sure if we can consider both JWT and Opaque token introspection when we are introducing JWT authentication, https://github.com/jakartaee/security/issues/255#issuecomment-1193501827

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Research direction

Begin with issue #255 and its linked Jakarta Security discussion; the issue names no source file or test, so first locate the existing JWT authentication entry point and how user claims are decoded. Done means defining support for opaque-token introspection through the predefined userInfoUri alongside JWT authentication.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
authentication, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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