CIBA: limit lifetime of signed auth request

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Description

As is done in FAPI-RW for the request object, explicitly require that the
signed authentication request has a limited lifetime.

If a signed authentication request has a long lifetime, it does not
contain evidence of when it was used so it less useful for
non-repudiation.

Additionally limiting the lifetime of requests limits the window during
which they can be used in replay attacks if obtained by an attacker.

60 minutes is seen as a fairly arbitary upper limit; other than for
clock skew related reasons I cannot currently think of a reason why the
request would need to have a lifetime longer than a minute or two.

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