Verify upstream Authelia ID tokens
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Closes the remaining half of gap G01. The adapter decoded upstream ID-token
claims without verifying anything, justified in a comment by a server-to-server
TLS boundary that nothing enforced.

Operator decision: verify the token rather than police the transport. The hop is
to be HTTPS as defence in depth, but KeyCape does not monitor, check or gate on
that -- a transport check helps only when it is configured correctly, which is
the assumption it was meant to remove. Verification holds regardless of how the
token arrived, so no HTTPS validation or opt-in flag is added.

HandleCallback now verifies the RS256 signature against Authelia's published
keys, the issuer Authelia advertises, KeyCape's own client ID in the audience,
and a sane validity window, before any claim is trusted. It fails closed: an
unreachable or unparseable key set denies the login. The advertised jwks_uri
path is rebased onto the server-side token base URL so split-horizon deployments
resolve, with config overrides where that inference is wrong, and an unknown key
id triggers one refresh so provider rotation needs no restart.

The reusable half lives in internal/jose rather than being copied from
authclient's verifier, since duplicated verification is how two copies drift and
one misses a fix. Migrating authclient onto it is tracked as KEY-WP-0019-T05,
kept separate so it does not destabilise a tested path in this change.

Thirteen rejection cases plus algorithm and rotation coverage; with the
unverified parse restored all fifteen fail, so they test the fix rather than
merely passing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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---
id: KEY-WP-0019
type: workplan
title: "Verify upstream Authelia ID tokens"
domain: infotech
repo: key-cape
status: active
owner: claude
topic_slug: upstream-provider-token-verification
created: "2026-09-07"
updated: "2026-09-07"
---
Closes the remaining half of gap G01 in
`history/2026-09-05-011726-scope-intent-assessment.md`. The Authelia adapter
decodes upstream ID-token claims without verifying the signature, issuer,
audience or expiry, justified in a comment by a server-to-server TLS boundary.
**Operator decision (2026-09-07, Bernd):** verify the token itself. The
KeyCape→Authelia hop is to be HTTPS as defence in depth, but KeyCape will not
monitor, check or gate on that — transport enforcement is friction without
protection value here, and a check that must be configured correctly to help is
itself a failure mode. Verification is chosen precisely because it does not
depend on the transport being what we believe it is. No HTTPS validation, opt-in
flag or transport telemetry is to be added.
## Extract a shared RS256/JWKS verifier
```task
id: KEY-WP-0019-T01
status: done
priority: high
```
`internal/authclient` already contains a strict RS256 verifier — kid required,
no `crit`, RSA-only keys of at least 2048 bits with an odd exponent. The upstream
verification needs the same rules. Duplicating security-critical verification is
how two copies drift and one silently misses a fix, so extract the reusable half
into `internal/jose`: strict JWK-set parsing and signature verification returning
claims. Claim policy stays with each caller, whose audience, nonce and issuer
rules genuinely differ.
Added `internal/jose`: strict JWK-set parsing (RSA signing keys only, at least
2048 bits, odd exponent 3 or greater, no duplicate key ids) and RS256 signature
verification returning claims. All failures collapse to one `ErrVerification`
so a caller cannot leak which check failed back to whoever supplied the token.
`authclient` is not yet migrated onto it — see T05.
## Verify the Authelia ID token
```task
id: KEY-WP-0019-T02
status: done
priority: high
```
Before trusting any claim from the upstream ID token: verify the RS256 signature
against Authelia's published keys, require the issuer Authelia advertises, require
KeyCape's own client ID in the audience, and reject expired or not-yet-valid
tokens. Fail closed — an unavailable or unparseable key set denies the login
rather than falling back to unverified claims. Resolve Authelia's metadata and
key set from the server-side token base URL so a split-horizon deployment, where
the advertised public URL is not reachable from KeyCape, still verifies; allow
explicit issuer and JWKS overrides for deployments where that inference is wrong.
Refresh the key set once on an unknown key id so provider key rotation does not
require a KeyCape restart. Replace the comment claiming the TLS boundary as
justification.
`idTokenVerifier` in the adapter resolves the issuer and JWKS path from the
provider's discovery document, rebasing the advertised `jwks_uri` path onto the
server-side token base URL so split-horizon deployments resolve, with
`issuer`/`jwksUrl` config overrides where that inference is wrong. Key sets are
cached and refetched once on an unknown key id. `parseIDTokenClaims` remains for
diagnostics but is documented as outside the authentication path.
## Prove the rejections
```task
id: KEY-WP-0019-T03
status: done
priority: high
```
Negative tests per condition: forged signature, `alg: none` and other algorithms,
unknown key id, wrong issuer, missing and wrong audience, expired token, future
`iat`/`nbf`, malformed key set, and an unreachable JWKS endpoint. A positive case
must confirm a genuine token still authenticates, and a rotation case that a new
key id is picked up after one refresh.
Thirteen rejection cases in `verify_test.go` plus the algorithm and rotation
cases. Confirmed they catch the original defect rather than merely passing: with
the unverified parse restored, all fifteen fail. The existing adapter tests now
build genuinely signed tokens against a fixture provider, so they exercise the
real verification path instead of being routed around it.
## Reconcile the records
```task
id: KEY-WP-0019-T04
status: done
priority: medium
```
Update `SCOPE.md` and G01's status in the assessment to state that upstream
provider tokens are now verified independently of transport, and record the
operator decision and its reasoning so the absence of transport enforcement reads
as a choice rather than an oversight. G01 closes with this; complete profile
conformance is still not claimed.
SCOPE.md and G01's status record the verification and the operator decision,
including why no transport enforcement exists, so its absence reads as a choice.
## Consolidate the caller verifier
```task
id: KEY-WP-0019-T05
status: todo
priority: medium
```
Move `internal/authclient`'s inline verification onto `internal/jose` so one
implementation serves both paths. Kept separate from T01/T02 deliberately: the
caller verifier is a tested security path, and destabilising it in the same
change that introduces upstream verification would confuse the evidence for both.