IdentityServer Options

Duende.IdentityServer.Configuration.IdentityServerOptions

The IdentityServerOptions is the central place to configure fundamental settings in Duende IdentityServer.

You set the options when registering IdentityServer at startup time, using a lambda expression in the AddIdentityServer method:

Program.cs

var idsvrBuilder = builder.Services.AddIdentityServer(options =>
{
    // configure options here..
})

Main

Top-level settings. Available directly on the IdentityServerOptions object.

• IssuerUri

  The name of the token server, used in the discovery document as the issuer claim and in JWT tokens and introspection responses as the iss claim.

  It is not recommended to set this option. If it is not set (the default), the issuer is inferred from the URL used by clients. This better conforms to the OpenID Connect specification, which requires that issuer values be “identical to the Issuer URL that was directly used to retrieve the configuration information”. It is also more convenient for clients to validate the issuer of tokens, because they will not need additional configuration or customization to know the expected issuer.

• LowerCaseIssuerUri

  Controls the casing of inferred IssuerUris. When set to false, the original casing of the IssuerUri in requests is preserved. When set to true, the IssuerUri is converted to lowercase. Defaults to true.

• AccessTokenJwtType

  The value used for the typ header in JWT access tokens. Defaults to at+jwt, as specified by the RFC 9068. If AccessTokenJwtType is set to null or the empty string, the typ header will not be emitted in JWT access tokens.

• LogoutTokenJwtType

  The value for the typ header in back-channel logout tokens. Defaults to “logout+jwt”, as specified by OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout 1.0.

• EmitScopesAsSpaceDelimitedStringInJwt

  Controls the format of scope claims in JWTs and introspection responses. Historically scopes values were emitted as an array in JWT access tokens. RFC 9068 now specifies a space delimited string instead. Defaults to false for backwards compatibility.

• EmitStaticAudienceClaim

  Emits a static aud (audience) claim in all access tokens with the format {issuer}/resources. For example, if IdentityServer was running at https://identity.example.com, the static aud claim’s value would be https://identity.example.com/resources. Historically, older versions of IdentityServer produced tokens with a static audience claim in this format. This flag is intended for use when you need to produce backwards-compatible access tokens. Also note that multiple audience claims are possible. If you enable this flag and also configure ApiResources you can have both the static audience and audiences from the API resources. Defaults to false.

• EmitIssuerIdentificationResponseParameter

  Emits the iss response parameter on authorize responses, as specified by RFC 9207. Defaults to true.

• EmitStateHash

  Emits the s_hash claim in identity tokens. The s_hash claim is a hash of the state parameter that is specified in the OpenID Connect Financial-grade API Security Profile. Defaults to false.

• StrictJarValidation

  Strictly validate JWT-secured authorization requests according to RFC 9101. When enabled, JWTs used to secure authorization requests must have the typ header value oauth-authz-req+jwt and JWT-secured authorization requests must have the HTTP content-type header value application/oauth-authz-req+jwt. This might break older OIDC conformant request objects. Defaults to false.

• ValidateTenantOnAuthorization

  Specifies if a user’s tenant claim is compared to the tenant acr_values parameter value to determine if the login page is displayed. Defaults to false.

Key management

Automatic key management settings. Available on the KeyManagement property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• Enabled

  Enables automatic key management. Defaults to true.

• SigningAlgorithms

  The signing algorithms for which automatic key management will manage keys.

  This option is configured with a list of objects containing a Name property, which is the name of a supported signing algorithm, and a UseX509Certificate property, which is a flag indicating if the signing key should be wrapped in an X.509 certificate.

  The first algorithm in the collection will be used as the default for clients that do not specify AllowedIdentityTokenSigningAlgorithms.

  The supported signing algorithm names are RS256, RS384, RS512, PS256, PS384, PS512, ES256, ES384, and ES512.

  X.509 certificates are not supported for ES256, ES384, and ES512 keys.

  Defaults to RS256 without an X.509 certificate.

Note

X.509 certificates have an expiration date, but IdentityServer does not use this data to validate the certificate and throw an exception. If a certificate has expired then you must decide whether to continue using it or replace it with a new certificate.

• RsaKeySize

  Key size (in bits) of RSA keys. The signing algorithms that use RSA keys (RS256, RS384, RS512, PS256, PS384, and PS512) will generate an RSA key of this length. Defaults to 2048.

• RotationInterval

  Age at which keys will no longer be used for signing, but will still be used in discovery for validation. Defaults to 90 days.

• PropagationTime

  Time expected to propagate new keys to all servers, and time expected all clients to refresh discovery. Defaults to 14 days.

• RetentionDuration

  Duration for keys to remain in discovery after rotation. Defaults to 14 days.

• DeleteRetiredKeys

  Automatically delete retired keys. Defaults to true.

• KeyPath

  Path for storing keys when using the default file system store. Defaults to the “keys” directory relative to the hosting application.

• DataProtectKeys

  Automatically protect keys in the storage using data protection. Defaults to true.

• KeyCacheDuration

  When in normal operation, duration to cache keys from store. Defaults to 24 hours.

• InitializationDuration

  When no keys have been created yet, this is the window of time considered to be an initialization period to allow all servers to synchronize if the keys are being created for the first time. Defaults to 5 minutes.

• InitializationSynchronizationDelay

  Delay used when re-loading from the store when the initialization period. It allows other servers more time to write new keys so other servers can include them. Defaults to 5 seconds.

• InitializationKeyCacheDuration

  Cache duration when within the initialization period. Defaults to 1 minute.

Endpoints

Endpoint settings, including flags to disable individual endpoints and support for the request_uri JAR parameter. Available on the Endpoints property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• EnableAuthorizeEndpoint

  Enables the authorize endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableTokenEndpoint

  Enables the token endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableDiscoveryEndpoint

  Enables the discovery endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableUserInfoEndpoint

  Enables the user info endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableEndSessionEndpoint

  Enables the end session endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableCheckSessionEndpoint

  Enables the check session endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableTokenRevocationEndpoint

  Enables the token revocation endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableIntrospectionEndpoint

  Enables the introspection endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableDeviceAuthorizationEndpoint

  Enables the device authorization endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableBackchannelAuthenticationEndpoint

  Enables the backchannel authentication endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnablePushedAuthorizationEndpoint

  Enables the pushed authorization endpoint. Defaults to true.

• EnableJwtRequestUri Enables the request_uri parameter for JWT-Secured Authorization Requests. This allows the JWT to be passed by reference. Disabled by default, due to the security implications of enabling the request_uri parameter (see RFC 9101 section 10.4).

Discovery

Discovery settings, including flags to toggle sections of the discovery document and settings to add custom entries to it. Available on the Discovery property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

If you want to take full control over the rendering of the discovery and jwks documents, you can implement the IDiscoveryResponseGenerator interface (or derive from our default implementation).

• ShowEndpoints

  Shows endpoints (authorization_endpoint, token_endpoint, etc.) in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowKeySet

  Shows the jwks_uri in the discovery document and enables the jwks endpoint. Defaults to true.

• ShowIdentityScopes

  Includes IdentityResources in the supported_scopes of the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowApiScopes

  Includes ApiScopes in the supported_scopes of the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowClaims

  Shows claims_supported in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowResponseTypes

  Shows response_types_supported in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowResponseModes

  Shows response_modes_supported in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowGrantTypes

  Shows grant_types_supported in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowExtensionGrantTypes

  Includes extension grant types in the grant_types_supported of the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• ShowTokenEndpointAuthenticationMethods

  Shows token_endpoint_auth_methods_supported in the discovery document. Defaults to true.

• CustomEntries Adds custom elements to the discovery document. For example:

Program.cs

var idsvrBuilder = builder.Services.AddIdentityServer(options =>
{
    options.Discovery.CustomEntries.Add("my_setting", "foo");
    options.Discovery.CustomEntries.Add("my_complex_setting",
        new
        {
            foo = "foo",
            bar = "bar"
        });
});

• ExpandRelativePathsInCustomEntries Expands paths in custom entries that begin with ”~/” into absolute paths below the IdentityServer base address. Defaults to true. In the following example, if IdentityServer’s base address is https://localhost:5001, then my_custom_endpoint’s value will be expanded to https://localhost:5001/custom.

options.Discovery.CustomEntries.Add("my_custom_endpoint", "~/custom");

Authentication

Login/logout related settings. Available on the Authentication property of the IdentityServerOptions

• CookieAuthenticationScheme

  Sets the cookie authentication scheme configured by the host used for interactive users. If not set, the scheme will be inferred from the host’s default authentication scheme. This setting is typically used when AddPolicyScheme is used in the host as the default scheme.

• CookieLifetime

  The authentication cookie lifetime (only effective if the IdentityServer-provided cookie handler is used). Defaults to 10 hours.

• CookieSlidingExpiration

  Specifies if the cookie should be sliding or not (only effective if the IdentityServer-provided cookie handler is used). Defaults to false.

• CookieSameSiteMode

  Specifies the SameSite mode for the internal cookies. Defaults to None.

• RequireAuthenticatedUserForSignOutMessage

  Indicates if user must be authenticated to accept parameters to end session endpoint. Defaults to false.

• CheckSessionCookieName

  The name of the cookie used for the check session endpoint. Defaults to the constant IdentityServerConstants.DefaultCheckSessionCookieName, which has the value “idsrv.session”.

• CheckSessionCookieDomain

  The domain of the cookie used for the check session endpoint. Defaults to null.

• CheckSessionCookieSameSiteMode

  The SameSite mode of the cookie used for the check session endpoint. Defaults to None.

• RequireCspFrameSrcForSignout

  Enables all content security policy headers on the end session endpoint. For historical reasons, this option’s name mentions frame-src, but the content security policy headers on the end session endpoint also include other fetch directives, including a default-src ‘none’ directive, which prevents most resources from being loaded by the end session endpoint, and a style-src directive that specifies the hash of the expected style on the page.

• CoordinateClientLifetimesWithUserSession (added in v6.1)

  When enabled, all clients’ token lifetimes (e.g. refresh tokens) will be tied to the user’s session lifetime. This means when the user logs out, any revokable tokens will be removed. If using server-side sessions, expired sessions will also remove any revokable tokens, and backchannel logout will be triggered. An individual client can override this setting with its own CoordinateLifetimeWithUserSession configuration setting.

Events

Configures which events should be raised at the registered event sink.

• RaiseSuccessEvents

  Enables success events. Defaults to false. Success events include all the events whose names are postfixed with “SuccessEvent”. In general, they are raised when properly formed and valid requests are processed without errors.

• RaiseFailureEvents

  Enables failure events. Defaults to false. Failure events include all the events whose names are postfixed with “FailureEvent”. In general, they are raised when an action has failed because of incorrect or badly formed parameters in a request. They indicate that the user or client calling IdentityServer has done something wrong and are analogous to a 400: bad request error.

• RaiseErrorEvents

  Enables Error events. Defaults to false. Error events are raised when an error has occurred, either because of invalid configuration or an unhandled exception. They indicate that there is something wrong within the token server or its configuration and are analogous to a 500: internal server error.

• RaiseInformationEvents

  Enables Information events. Defaults to false. Information events are emitted when an action has occurred that is of informational interest, but that is neither a success nor a failure. For example, when the end user grants, denies, or revokes consent, that is considered an information event, because these events capture a valid choice of the user rather than success or failure.

Logging

Logging related settings, including filters that will remove sensitive values and unwanted exceptions from logs. Available on the Logging property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• AuthorizeRequestSensitiveValuesFilter

  Collection of parameter names passed to the authorize endpoint that are considered sensitive and will be excluded from logging. Defaults to id_token_hint.

• TokenRequestSensitiveValuesFilter

  Collection of parameter names passed to the token endpoint that are considered sensitive and will be excluded from logging. In v7.0 and earlier, defaults to client_secret, password, client_assertion, refresh_token, and device_code. In v7.1, subject_token is also excluded.

• BackchannelAuthenticationRequestSensitiveValuesFilter

  Collection of parameter names passed to the backchannel authentication endpoint that are considered sensitive and will be excluded from logging. Defaults to client_secret, client_assertion, and id_token_hint.

• UnhandledExceptionLoggingFilter (added in v6.2)

  A function that is called when the IdentityServer middleware detects an unhandled exception, and is used to determine if the exception is logged. The arguments to the function are the HttpContext and the Exception. It should return true to log the exception, and false to suppress. The default is to suppress logging of cancellation-related exceptions when the CancellationToken on the HttpContext has requested cancellation. Such exceptions are thrown when Http requests are canceled, which is an expected occurrence. Logging them creates unnecessary noise in the logs. In v7.0 and earlier, only TaskCanceledExceptions were filtered. Beginning in v7.1, OperationCanceledExceptions are filtered as well.

InputLengthRestrictions

Settings that control the allowed length of various protocol parameters, such as client id, scope, redirect URI etc. Available on the InputLengthRestrictions property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• ClientId

  Max length for ClientId. Defaults to 100.

• ClientSecret

  Max length for external client secrets. Defaults to 100.

• Scope

  Max length for scope. Defaults to 300.

• RedirectUri

  Max length for redirect_uri. Defaults to 400.

• Nonce

  Max length for nonce. Defaults to 300.

• UiLocale

  Max length for ui_locale. Defaults to 100.

• LoginHint

  Max length for login_hint. Defaults to 100.

• AcrValues

  Max length for acr_values. Defaults to 300.

• GrantType

  Max length for grant_type. Defaults to 100.

• UserName

  Max length for username. Defaults to 100.

• Password

  Max length for password. Defaults to 100.

• CspReport

  Max length for CSP reports. Defaults to 2000.

• IdentityProvider

  Max length for external identity provider name. Defaults to 100.

• ExternalError

  Max length for external identity provider errors. Defaults to 100.

• AuthorizationCode

  Max length for authorization codes. Defaults to 100.

• DeviceCode

  Max length for device codes. Defaults to 100.

• RefreshToken

  Max length for refresh tokens. Defaults to 100.

• TokenHandle

  Max length for token handles. Defaults to 100.

• Jwt

  Max length for JWTs. Defaults to 51200.

• CodeChallengeMinLength

  Min length for the code challenge. Defaults to 43.

• CodeChallengeMaxLength

  Max length for the code challenge. Defaults to 128.

• CodeVerifierMinLength

  Min length for the code verifier. Defaults to 43.

• CodeVerifierMaxLength

  Max length for the code verifier. Defaults to 128.

• ResourceIndicatorMaxLength

  Max length for resource indicator parameter. Defaults to 512.

• BindingMessage

  Max length for binding_message. Defaults to 100.

• UserCode

  Max length for user_code. Defaults to 100.

• IdTokenHint

  Max length for id_token_hint. Defaults to 4000.

• LoginHintToken

  Max length for login_hint_token. Defaults to 4000.

• AuthenticationRequestId Max length for auth_req_id. Defaults to 100.

UserInteraction

User interaction settings, including urls for pages in the UI, names of parameters to those pages, and other settings related to interactive flows. Available on the UserInteraction property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• LoginUrl, LogoutUrl, ConsentUrl, ErrorUrl, DeviceVerificationUrl

  Sets the URLs for the login, logout, consent, error and device verification pages.

• CreateAccountUrl (added in v6.3)

  Sets the URL for the create account page, which is used by OIDC requests that include the prompt=create parameter. When this option is set, including the prompt=create parameter will cause the user to be redirected to the specified url. create will also be added to the discovery document’s prompt_values_supported array to announce support for this feature. When this option is not set, the prompt=create parameter is ignored, and create is not added to discovery. Defaults to null.

• LoginReturnUrlParameter

  Sets the name of the return URL parameter passed to the login page. Defaults to returnUrl.

• LogoutIdParameter

  Sets the name of the logout message id parameter passed to the logout page. Defaults to logoutId.

• ConsentReturnUrlParameter

  Sets the name of the return URL parameter passed to the consent page. Defaults to returnUrl.

• ErrorIdParameter

  Sets the name of the error message id parameter passed to the error page. Defaults to errorId.

• CustomRedirectReturnUrlParameter

  Sets the name of the return URL parameter passed to a custom redirect from the authorization endpoint. Defaults to returnUrl.

• DeviceVerificationUserCodeParameter

  Sets the name of the user code parameter passed to the device verification page. Defaults to userCode.

• CookieMessageThreshold

  Certain interactions between IdentityServer and some UI pages require a cookie to pass state and context (any of the pages above that have a configurable “message id” parameter). Since browsers have limits on the number of cookies and their size, this setting is used to prevent too many cookies being created. The value sets the maximum number of message cookies of any type that will be created. The oldest message cookies will be purged once the limit has been reached. This effectively indicates how many tabs can be opened by a user when using IdentityServer. Defaults to 2.

• AllowOriginInReturnUrl

  Flag that allows return URL validation to accept full URL that includes the IdentityServer origin. Defaults to false.

• PromptValuesSupported (added in v7.0.7)

  The collection of OIDC prompt modes supported and that will be published in discovery. By default, this includes all values in Constants.SupportedPromptModes. If the CreateAccountUrl option is set, then the “create” value is also included. If additional prompt values are added, a customized IAuthorizeInteractionResponseGenerator" is also required to handle those values.

Caching

Caching settings for the stores. Available on the Caching property of the IdentityServerOptions object. These settings only apply if the respective caching has been enabled in the services configuration in startup.

• ClientStoreExpiration

  Cache duration of client configuration loaded from the client store. Defaults to 15 minutes.

• ResourceStoreExpiration

  Cache duration of identity and API resource configuration loaded from the resource store. Defaults to 15 minutes.

• CorsExpiration

  Cache duration of CORS configuration loaded from the CORS policy service. Defaults to 15 minutes.

• IdentityProviderCacheDuration

  Cache duration of identity provider configuration loaded from the identity provider store. Defaults to 60 minutes.

• CacheLockTimeout

  The timeout for concurrency locking in the default cache. Defaults to 60 seconds.

CORS

CORS settings for IdentityServer’s endpoints. Available on the Cors property of the IdentityServerOptions object. The underlying CORS implementation is provided from ASP.NET Core, and as such it is automatically registered in the dependency injection system.

• CorsPolicyName

  Name of the CORS policy that will be evaluated for CORS requests into IdentityServer. Defaults to IdentityServer. The policy provider that handles this is implemented in terms of the ICorsPolicyService registered in the dependency injection system. If you wish to customize the set of CORS origins allowed to connect, then it is recommended that you provide a custom implementation of ICorsPolicyService.

• CorsPaths

  The endpoints within IdentityServer where CORS is supported. Defaults to the discovery, user info, token, and revocation endpoints.

• PreflightCacheDuration

  Indicates the value to be used in the preflight Access-Control-Max-Age response header. Defaults to null indicating no caching header is set on the response.

Content Security Policy

Settings for Content Security Policy (CSP) headers that IdentityServer emits. Available on the Csp property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• Level

  The level of CSP to use. CSP Level 2 is used by default, but this can be changed to CspLevel.One to accommodate older browsers.

• AddDeprecatedHeader

  Indicates if the older X-Content-Security-Policy CSP header should also be emitted in addition to the standards-based header value. Defaults to true.

Device Flow

OAuth device flow settings. Available on the DeviceFlow property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• DefaultUserCodeType

  The user code type to use, unless set at the client level. Defaults to Numeric, a 9-digit code.

• Interval

  The maximum frequency in seconds that a client may poll the token endpoint in the device flow. Defaults to 5.

Mutual TLS

Mutual TLS settings. Available on the MutualTls property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

Program.cs

var builder = services.AddIdentityServer(options =>
{
    options.MutualTls.Enabled = true;

    // use mtls subdomain
    options.MutualTls.DomainName = "mtls";

    options.MutualTls.AlwaysEmitConfirmationClaim = true;
})

• Enabled

  Specifies if MTLS support should be enabled. Defaults to false.

• ClientCertificateAuthenticationScheme

  Specifies the name of the authentication handler for X.509 client certificates. Defaults to Certificate.

• DomainName

  Specifies either the name of the subdomain or full domain for running the MTLS endpoints. MTLS will use path-based endpoints if not set (the default). Use a simple string (e.g. “mtls”) to set a subdomain, use a full domain name (e.g. “identityserver-mtls.io”) to set a full domain name. When a full domain name is used, you also need to set the IssuerName to a fixed value.

• AlwaysEmitConfirmationClaim

  Specifies whether a cnf claim gets emitted for access tokens if a client certificate was present. Normally the cnf claims only gets emitted if the client used the client certificate for authentication, setting this to true, will set the claim regardless of the authentication method. Defaults to false.

PersistentGrants

Shared settings for persisted grants behavior.

• DataProtectData

  Data protect the persisted grants “data” column. Defaults to true. If your database is already protecting data at rest, then you can consider disabling this.

• DeleteOneTimeOnlyRefreshTokensOnUse (added in v6.3)

  When Refresh tokens that are configured with RefreshTokenUsage.OneTime are used, this option controls if they will be deleted immediately or retained and marked as consumed. The default is on - immediately delete.

Dynamic Providers

Settings for dynamic providers. Available on the DynamicProviders property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• PathPrefix

  Prefix in the pipeline for callbacks from external providers. Defaults to “/federation”.

• SignInScheme

  Scheme used for signin. Defaults to the constant IdentityServerConstants.ExternalCookieAuthenticationScheme, which has the value “idsrv.external”.

• SignOutScheme

  Scheme for signout. Defaults to the constant IdentityServerConstants.DefaultCookieAuthenticationScheme, which has the value “idsrv”.

CIBA

CIBA settings. Available on the Ciba property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• DefaultLifetime

  The default lifetime of the pending authentication requests in seconds. Defaults to 300.

• DefaultPollingInterval

  The maximum frequency in seconds that a client may poll the token endpoint in the CIBA flow. Defaults to 5.

Server-side Sessions

Settings for server-side sessions. Added in v6.1. Available on the ServerSideSessions property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• UserDisplayNameClaimType

  Claim type used for the user’s display name. Unset by default due to possible PII concerns. If used, this would commonly be JwtClaimTypes.Name, JwtClaimType.Email or a custom claim.

• RemoveExpiredSessions

  Enables periodic cleanup of expired sessions. Defaults to true.

• RemoveExpiredSessionsFrequency

  Frequency that expired sessions will be removed. Defaults to 10 minutes.

• RemoveExpiredSessionsBatchSize

  Number of expired session records to be removed at a time. Defaults to 100.

• ExpiredSessionsTriggerBackchannelLogout

  If enabled, when server-side sessions are removed due to expiration, back-channel logout notifications will be sent. This will, in effect, tie a user’s session lifetime at a client to their session lifetime at IdentityServer. Defaults to true.

• FuzzExpiredSessionRemovalStart

  The background session cleanup job runs at a configured interval. If multiple nodes run the cleanup job at the same time update conflicts might occur in the store. To reduce the propability of that happening, the startup time can be fuzzed. The first run is scheduled at a random time between the host startup and the configured RemoveExpiredSessionsFrequency. Subsequent runs are run on the configured RemoveExpiredSessionsFrequency. Defaults to true.

Validation

• InvalidRedirectUriPrefixes

  Collection of URI scheme prefixes that should never be used as custom URI schemes in the redirect_uri passed to tha authorize endpoint or the post_logout_redirect_uri passed to the end_session endpoint. Defaults to [“javascript:”, “file:”, “data:”, “mailto:”, “ftp:”, “blob:”, “about:”, “ssh:”, “tel:”, “view-source:”, “ws:”, “wss:”].

DPoP

Added in 6.3.0.

Demonstration of Proof-of-Possession settings. Available on the DPoP property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• ProofTokenValidityDuration

  Duration that DPoP proof tokens are considered valid. Defaults to 1 minute.

• ServerClockSkew

  Clock skew used in validating DPoP proof token expiration using a server-generated nonce value. Defaults to 0.

Pushed Authorization Requests

Pushed Authorization Requests (PAR) settings. Added in v7.0. Available on the PushedAuthorization property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

• Required

  Causes PAR to be required globally. Defaults to false.

• Lifetime

  Controls the lifetime of pushed authorization requests. The pushed authorization request’s lifetime begins when the request to the PAR endpoint is received, and is validated until the authorize endpoint returns a response to the client application. Note that user interaction, such as entering credentials or granting consent, may need to occur before the authorize endpoint can do so. Setting the lifetime too low will likely cause login failures for interactive users, if pushed authorization requests expire before those users complete authentication. Some security profiles, such as the FAPI 2.0 Security Profile recommend an expiration within 10 minutes to prevent attackers from pre-generating requests. To balance these constraints, this lifetime defaults to 10 minutes.

Preview Features

Preview Features settings. Available on the Preview property of the IdentityServerOptions object.

Note

Duende IdentityServer may ship preview features, which can be configured using preview options. Note that preview features can be removed and may break in future releases.

Discovery Document Cache

In large deployments of Duende IdentityServer, where a lot of concurrent users attempt to consume the discovery endpoint to retrieve metadata about your IdentityServer, you can increase throughput by enabling the discovery document cache preview using the EnableDiscoveryDocumentCache flag. This will cache discovery document information for the duration specified in the DiscoveryDocumentCacheDuration option.

It’s best to keep the cache time low if you use the CustomEntries element on the discovery document or implement a custom IDiscoveryResponseGenerator.

Strict Audience Validation

When using private key JWT, there is a theoretical vulnerability where a Relying Party trusting multiple OpenID Providers could be attacked if one of the OpenID Providers is malicious or compromised.

The OpenID Foundation proposed a two-part fix: strictly validate the audience and set an explicit typ header in the authentication JWT.

You can enable strict audience validation in Duende IdentityServer using the StrictClientAssertionAudienceValidation flag, which strictly validates that the audience is equal to the issuer and validates the token’s typ header.