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Hydra uses the security first OAuth2 and OpenID Connect SDK Fosite and Ladon for policy-based access control.

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What is Hydra?

At first, there was the monolith. The monolith worked well with the bespoke authentication module. Then, the web evolved into an elastic cloud that serves thousands of different user agents in every part of the world.

Hydra is driven by the need for a scalable, low-latency, in memory Access Control, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect layer that integrates with every identity provider you can imagine.

Hydra is available through Docker and relies on RethinkDB for persistence. Database drivers are extensible in case you want to use RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, or some other database instead.

Hydra is built for high throughput environments. Using 10.000 simultaneous connections on a Macbook Pro Late 2013, the OAuth2 token validation endpoint served on average 37500 requests / sec. Other endpoints like the JSON Web Key endpoint serve up to 4700 requests / sec. Read this issue for information on reproducing these benchmarks yourself.

Feature Overview

  1. Availability: Hydra uses pub/sub to have the latest data available in memory. The in-memory architecture allows for heavy duty workloads.
  2. Scalability: Hydra scales effortlessly on every platform you can imagine, including Heroku, Cloud Foundry, Docker, Google Container Engine and many more.
  3. Integration: Hydra wraps your existing stack like a blanket and keeps it safe. Hydra uses cryptographic tokens to authenticate users and request their consent, no APIs required. The deprecated php-3.0 authentication service your intern wrote? It works with that too, don't worry. We wrote an example with React to show you what this could look like: React.js Identity Provider Example App.
  4. Security: Hydra leverages the security first OAuth2 framework Fosite, encrypts important data at rest, and supports HTTP over TLS (https) out of the box.
  5. Ease of use: Developers and operators are human. Therefore, Hydra is easy to install and manage. Hydra does not care if you use React, Angular, or Cocoa for your user interface. To support you even further, there are APIs available for cryptographic key management, social log on, policy based access control, policy management, and two factor authentication (tbd). Hydra is packaged using Docker.
  6. Open Source: Hydra is licensed under Apache Version 2.0
  7. Professional: Hydra implements peer reviewed open standards published by The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF®) and the OpenID Foundation and under supervision of the LMU Teaching and Research Unit Programming and Modelling Languages. No funny business.
  8. Real Time: Operation is a lot easier with real time. There are no caches, no invalidation strategies and no magic - just simple, cloud native pub-sub. Hydra leverages RethinkDB, so check out their real time database monitoring too!

Quickstart

This section is a quickstart guide to working with Hydra. In-depth docs are available as well:

  • The documentation is available on GitBook.
  • The REST API documentation is available at Apiary.
Installation

There are various ways of installing hydra on your system.

Download binaries

The client and server binaries are downloadable at releases. There is currently no installer available. You have to add the hydra binary to the PATH environment variable yourself or put the binary in a location that is already in your path (/usr/bin, ...). If you do not understand what that all of this means, ask in our chat channel. We are happy to help.

Using Docker

Starting the host is easiest with docker. The host process handles HTTP requests and is backed by a database. Read how to install docker on Linux, OSX or Windows. Hydra is available on Docker Hub.

You can use Hydra without a database, but be aware that restarting, scaling or stopping the container will lose all data:

$ docker run -d -p 4444:4444 oryam/hydra --name my-hydra
ec91228cb105db315553499c81918258f52cee9636ea2a4821bdb8226872f54b

Using the client command line interface: You can ssh into the hydra container and execute the hydra command from there:

$ docker exec -i -t <hydra-container-id> /bin/bash
# e.g. docker exec -i -t ec91228 /bin/bash

root@ec91228cb105:/go/src/github.com/ory-am/hydra# hydra
Hydra is a twelve factor OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider

[...]
Building from source

If you wish to compile hydra yourself, you need to install and set up Go 1.5+ and add $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH. To do so, run the following commands in a shell (bash, sh, cmd.exe, ...):

go get github.com/ory-am/hydra
go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory-am/hydra
glide install
go install github.com/ory-am/hydra
hydra
5 minutes tutorial: Run your very own OAuth2 environment

In this example, you will set up Hydra, a RethinkDB instance and an exemplary identity provider written in React using docker compose. It will take you about 5 minutes to get complete this tutorial.

OAuth2 Flow Running the example

Install the CLI and Docker Toolbox. Make sure you install Docker Compose. On OSX and Windows, open the Docker Quickstart Terminal. On Linux, open any terminal.

We will use a dummy password as the system secret: SYSTEM_SECRET=passwordtutorialpasswordtutorial. Use a very secure secret in production.

On OSX and Windows using the Docker Quickstart Terminal:

$ go get github.com/ory-am/hydra
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory-am/hydra
$ docker-compose build
Building hydra
[...]
$ SYSTEM_SECRET=passwordtutorial DOCKER_IP=$(docker-machine ip default) docker-compose up
Starting hydra_hydra_1
[...]

On Linux:

$ go get github.com/ory-am/hydra
$ cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory-am/hydra
$ docker-compose build
Building hydra
[...]
$ SYSTEM_SECRET=passwordtutorial DOCKER_IP=localhost docker-compose up
Starting hydra_rethinkdb_1
[...]
mhydra   | mtime="2016-05-17T18:09:28Z" level=warning msg="Generated system secret: MnjFP5eLIr60h?hLI1h-!<4(TlWjAHX7"
[...]
mhydra   | mtime="2016-05-17T18:09:29Z" level=warning msg="client_id: d9227bd5-5d47-4557-957d-2fd3bee11035"
mhydra   | mtime="2016-05-17T18:09:29Z" level=warning msg="client_secret: ,IvxGt02uNjv1ur9"
[...]

You now have a running hydra docker container! Additionally, a RethinkDB image was deployed as well as a consent app.

Hydra can be managed with the hydra CLI client. The client has to log on before it is allowed to do anything. When hydra detects a new installation, a new temporary root client is created. The client credentials are printed in the container logs.

mhydra   | mtime="2016-05-17T18:09:29Z" level=warning msg="client_id: d9227bd5-5d47-4557-957d-2fd3bee11035"
mhydra   | mtime="2016-05-17T18:09:29Z" level=warning msg="client_secret: ,IvxGt02uNjv1ur9"

The system secret is a global secret assigned to every hydra instance. It is used to encrypt data at rest. You can set the system secret through the $SYSTEM_SECRET environment variable. When no secret is set, hydra generates one:

time="2016-05-15T14:56:34Z" level=warning msg="Generated system secret: (.UL_&77zy8/v9<sUsWLKxLwuld?.82B"

Important note: Please be aware that logging passwords should never be done on a production server. Either prune the logs, set the required parameters, or replace the credentials with other ones.

Now you know which credentials you need to use. Next, we log in.

Note: If you are using docker toolbox, please use the IP address provided by docker-machine ip default as the cluster URL host.

$ hydra connect
Cluster URL: https://localhost:4444
Client ID: d9227bd5-5d47-4557-957d-2fd3bee11035
Client Secret: ,IvxGt02uNjv1ur9
Done.

Great! You are now connected to Hydra and can start by creating a new client:

$ hydra clients create --skip-tls-verify
Client ID: c003830f-a090-4721-9463-92424270ce91
Client Secret: Z2pJ0>Tp7.ggn>EE&rhnOzdt1

Important note: if no certificate is provided, Hydra uses self-signed TLS certificates for HTTPS. This should never be done in production. To skip the TLS verification step on the client, provide the --skip-tls-verify flag.

Why not issue an access token for your client?

$ hydra token client --skip-tls-verify
JLbnRS9GQmzUBT4x7ESNw0kj2wc0ffbMwOv3QQZW4eI.qkP-IQXn6guoFew8TvaMFUD-SnAyT8GmWuqGi3wuWXg

Let's try this with the authorize code grant!

$ hydra token user --skip-tls-verify
If your browser does not open automatically, navigate to: https://192.168.99.100:4444/oauth2/...
Setting up callback listener on http://localhost:4445/callback
Press ctrl + c on Linux / Windows or cmd + c on OSX to end the process.

Great! You installed hydra, connected the CLI, created a client and completed two authentication flows! Your next stop should be the Guide.

Security

Why should I use Hydra? It's not that hard to implement two OAuth2 endpoints and there are numerous SDKs out there!

OAuth2 and OAuth2 related specifications are over 200 written pages. Implementing OAuth2 is easy, getting it right is hard. Even if you use a secure SDK (there are numerous SDKs not secure by design in the wild), messing up the implementation is a real threat - no matter how good you or your team is. To err is human.

Let's take a look at security in Hydra:

Additionally to the claims above, Hydra has received a lot of positive feedback. Let's see what the community is saying:

Nice! Lowering barriers to the use of technologies like these is important.

Pyxl101

OAuth is a framework not a protocol. The security it provides can vary greatly between implementations. Fosite (which is what this is based on) is a very good implementation from a security perspective: https://github.com/ory-am/fosite#a-word-on-security

abritishguy

[...] Thanks for releasing this by the way, looks really well engineered. [...]

olalonde

Documentation

Guide

The Guide is available on GitBook.

REST API Documentation

The REST API is documented at Apiary.

CLI Documentation

The CLI help is verbose. To see it, run hydra -h or hydra [command] -h.

Develop

Unless you want to test Hydra against a database, developing with Hydra is as easy as:

go get github.com/ory-am/hydra
go get github.com/Masterminds/glide
cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/ory-am/hydra
glide install
go test ./...
go run main.go

If you want to run Hydra against RethinkDB, you can do so by using docker:

docker run --name some-rethink -d -p 8080:8080 -p 28015:28015 rethinkdb

# Linux
DATABASE_URL=rethinkdb://localhost:28015/hydra go run main.go

# Docker Terminal
DATABASE_URL=rethinkdb://$(docker-machine ip default):28015/hydra go run main.go

FAQ

What is OAuth2 and what is OpenID Connect?
Should I use OAuth2 tokens for authentication?

OAuth2 tokens are like money. It allows you to buy stuff, but the cashier does not really care if the money is yours or if you stole it, as long as it's valid money. Depending on what you understand as authentication, this is a yes and no answer:

  • Yes: You can use access tokens to find out which user ("subject") is performing an action in a resource provider (blog article service, shopping basket, ...). Coming back to the money example: You, the subject, receives a cappuccino from the vendor (resource provider) in exchange for money (access token).
  • No: Never use access tokens for logging people in, for example http://myapp.com/login?access_token=.... Coming back to the money example: The police officer ("authentication server") will not accept money ("access token") as a proof of identity ("it's really you"). Unless he is corrupt ("vulnerable"), of course.

In the second example ("authentication server"), you must use OpenID Connect ID Tokens.

Can I use Hydra in my new or existing app?

OAuth2 and OpenID Connect are tricky to understand. It is important to understand that OAuth2 is a delegation protocol. It makes sense to use Hydra in new and existing projects. A use case covering an existing project explains how one would use Hydra in a new one as well. So let's look at a use case!

Let's assume we are running a ToDo List App (todo24.com). ToDo24 has a login endpoint (todo24.com/login). The login endpoint is written in node and uses MongoDB to store user information (email + password + settings). Of course, todo24 has other services as well: list management (todo24.com/lists/manage: close, create, move), item management (todo24.com/lists/items/manage: mark solved, add), and so on. You are using cookies to see which user is performing the request.

Now you decide to use OAuth2 on top of your current infrastructure. There are many reasons to do this:

  • You want to open up your APIs to third-party developers. Their apps will be using OAuth2 Access Tokens to access a user's to do list.
  • You want a mobile client. Because you can not store secrets on devices (they can be reverse engineered and stolen), you use OAuth2 Access Tokens instead.
  • You have Cross Origin Requests. Making cookies work with Cross Origin Requests weakens or even disables important anti-CSRF measures.
  • You want to write an in-browser client. This is the same case as in a mobile client (you can't store secrets in a browser).

These are only a couple of reasons to use OAuth2. You might decide to use OAuth2 as your single source of authorization, thus maintaining only one authorization protocol and being able to open up to third party devs in no time. With OpenID Connect, you are able to delegate authentication as well as authorization!

Your decision is final. You want to use OAuth2 and you want Hydra to do the job. You install Hydra in your cluster using docker. Next, you set up some exemplary OAuth2 clients. Clients can act on their own, but most of the time they need to access a user's todo lists. To do so, the client initiates an OAuth2 request. This is where Hydra's authentication flow comes in to play. Before Hydra can issue an access token, we need to know WHICH user is giving consent. To do so, Hydra redirects the user agent (e.g. browser, mobile device) to the login endpoint alongside with a challenge that contains an expiry time and other information. The login endpoint (todo24.com/login) authenticates the user as usual, e.g. by username & password, session cookie or other means. Upon successful authentication, the login endpoint asks for the user's consent: "Do you want to grant MyCoolAnalyticsApp read & write access to all your todo lists? [Yes] [No]". Once the user clicks Yes and gives consent, the login endpoint redirects back to hydra and appends something called a consent token. The consent token is a cryptographically signed string that contains information about the user, specifically the user's unique id. Hydra validates the signature's trustworthiness and issues an OAuth2 access token and optionally a refresh or OpenID token.

Every time a request containing an access token hits a resource server (todo24.com/lists/manage), you make a request to Hydra asking who the token's subject (the user who authorized the client to create a token on its behalf) is and whether the token is valid or not. You may optionally ask if the token has permission to perform a certain action.

I'm having trouble with the redirect URI

Hydra enforces HTTPS for all hosts except localhost. Also make sure that the path is an exact match. http://localhost:123/ is not the same as http://localhost:123.

How can I validate tokens?

Please use the Warden API. There is a go client library available here. The Warden API is documented here and here.

How can I import TLS certificates?

You can import TLS certificates when running hydra host. This can be done by setting the following environment variables:

Read from file

  • HTTPS_TLS_CERT_PATH: The path to the TLS certificate (pem encoded).
  • HTTPS_TLS_KEY_PATH: The path to the TLS private key (pem encoded).

Embedded

  • HTTPS_TLS_CERT: A pem encoded TLS certificate passed as string. Can be used instead of TLS_CERT_PATH.
  • HTTPS_TLS_KEY: A pem encoded TLS key passed as string. Can be used instead of TLS_KEY_PATH.

Or by specifying the following flags:

--https-tls-cert-path string   Path to the certificate file for HTTP/2 over TLS (https). You can set HTTPS_TLS_KEY_PATH or HTTPS_TLS_KEY instead.
--https-tls-key-path string    Path to the key file for HTTP/2 over TLS (https). You can set HTTPS_TLS_KEY_PATH or HTTPS_TLS_KEY instead.
I want to disable HTTPS for testing

You can do so by running hydra host --dangerous-force-http.

Can I set the log level to warn, error, debug, ...?

Yes, you can do so by setting the environment variable LOG_LEVEL=<level>. There are various levels supported:

  • debug
  • warn
  • error
  • fatal
  • panic
I need to use a custom CA for RethinkDB

You can do so by specifying environment variables:

  • RETHINK_TLS_CERT_PATH: The path to the TLS certificate (pem encoded) used to connect to rethinkdb.
  • RETHINK_TLS_CERT: A pem encoded TLS certificate passed as string. Can be used instead of RETHINK_TLS_CERT_PATH.

or via command line flag:

--rethink-tls-cert-path string   Path to the certificate file to connect to rethinkdb over TLS (https). You can set RETHINK_TLS_CERT_PATH or RETHINK_TLS_CERT instead.
What will happen if an error occurs during an OAuth2 flow?

The user agent will either, according to spec, be redirected to the OAuth2 client who initiated the request, if possible. If not, the user agent will be redirected to the identity provider endpoint and an error and error_description query parameter will be appended to it's URL.

Eventually consistent

Using hydra with RethinkDB implies eventual consistency on all endpoints, except /oauth2/auth and /oauth2/token. Eventual consistent data is usually not immediately available. This is dependent on the network latency between Hydra and RethinkDB.

Is there a client library / SDK?

Yes, for Go! It is available at github.com/ory-am/hydra/sdk.

Connect the SDK to Hydra:

import "github.com/ory-am/hydra/sdk"

hydra, err := sdk.Connect(
    sdk.ClientID("client-id"),
    sdk.ClientSecret("client-secret"),
    sdk.ClustURL("https://localhost:4444"),
)

Manage OAuth Clients using ory-am/hydra/client.HTTPManager:

import "github.com/ory-am/hydra/client"

// Create a new OAuth2 client
newClient, err := hydra.Client.CreateClient(&client.Client{
    ID:                "deadbeef",
	Secret:            "sup3rs3cret",
	RedirectURIs:      []string{"http://yourapp/callback"},
    // ...
})

// Retrieve newly created client
newClient, err = hydra.Client.GetClient(newClient.ID)

// Remove the newly created client
err = hydra.Client.DeleteClient(newClient.ID)

// Retrieve list of all clients
clients, err := hydra.Client.GetClients()

Manage SSO Connections using ory-am/hydra/connection.HTTPManager:

import "github.com/ory-am/hydra/connection"

// Create a new connection
newSSOConn, err := hydra.SSO.Create(&connection.Connection{
    Provider: "login.google.com",
    LocalSubject: "bob",
    RemoteSubject: "googleSubjectID",
})

// Retrieve newly created connection
ssoConn, err := hydra.SSO.Get(newSSOConn.ID)

// Delete connection
ssoConn, err := hydra.SSO.Delete(newSSOConn.ID)

// Find a connection by subject
ssoConns, err := hydra.SSO.FindAllByLocalSubject("bob")
ssoConns, err := hydra.SSO.FindByRemoteSubject("login.google.com", "googleSubjectID")

Manage policies using ory-am/hydra/policy.HTTPManager:

import "github.com/ory-am/ladon"

// Create a new policy
// allow user to view his/her own photos
newPolicy, err := hydra.Policy.Create(ladon.DefaultPolicy{
    ID: "1234", // ID is not required
    Subjects: []string{"bob"},
    Resources: []string{"urn:media:images"},
    Actions: []string{"get", "find"},
    Effect: ladon.AllowAccess,
    Conditions: ladon.Conditions{
        "owner": &ladon.EqualSubjectCondition{},
    }
})

// Retrieve a stored policy
policy, err := hydra.Policy.Get("1234")

// Delete a policy
err := hydra.Policy.Delete("1234")

// Retrieve all policies for a subject
policies, err := hydra.Policy.FindPoliciesForSubject("bob")

Manage JSON Web Keys using ory-am/hydra/jwk.HTTPManager:

// Generate new key set
keySet, err := hydra.JWK.CreateKeys("app-tls-keys", "HS256")

// Retrieve key set
keySet, err := hydra.JWK.GetKeySet("app-tls-keys")

// Delete key set
err := hydra.JWK.DeleteKeySet("app-tls-keys")

Validate requests with the Warden, uses ory-am/hydra/warden.HTTPWarden:

import "github.com/ory-am/ladon"

// Check if action is allowed
hydra.Warden.HTTPRequestAllowed(ctx, req, &ladon.Request{
    Resource: "urn:media:images",
    Action: "get",
    Subject: "bob",
}, "media.images")

// Check if request is authorized
hydra.Warden.HTTPAuthorized(ctx, req, "media.images")

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Overview

Package hydra is an api-only cloud native OAuth2 and OpenID Connect provider that integrates with existing authentication mechanisms:

At first, there was the monolith. The monolith worked well with the bespoke authentication module. Then, the web evolved into an elastic cloud that serves thousands of different user agents in every part of the world. Hydra is driven by the need for a scalable, low-latency, in memory Access Control, OAuth2, and OpenID Connect layer that integrates with every identity provider you can imagine. Hydra is available through Docker and relies on RethinkDB for persistence. Database drivers are extensible in case you want to use RabbitMQ, MySQL, MongoDB, or some other database instead. Hydra is built for high throughput environments. Check out the below siege benchmark on a Macbook Pro Late 2013, connected to RethinkDB validating access tokens.

The official repository is located at https://github.com/ory-am/hydra

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Path Synopsis
cmd
cli
server
Package firewall defines an API for validating access requests.
 Package firewall defines an API for validating access requests.
pkg
helper
Package SDK offers convenience functions for Go code around Hydra's HTTP APIs.
 Package SDK offers convenience functions for Go code around Hydra's HTTP APIs.
Package warden decides if access requests should be allowed or denied.
 Package warden decides if access requests should be allowed or denied.

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