I do not have a current use case in terms of a specific application.  I just
note that having a time that things are signed is common practice in many
documents that are used today.   As such I believe it will be a common
attribute on signatures that will be needed in the future.

Jim


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Anthony Nadalin
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 6:40 PM
> To: Jim Schaad; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [jose] Proposal - Create a SignTime Header
> 
> What is the use case here? I really hate to bring in time requirements.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Jim Schaad
> Sent: Tuesday, October 9, 2012 11:34 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [jose] Proposal - Create a SignTime Header
> 
> I propose that we create a header entry that is optional and contains a
time
> that the signer claims that they signed at.
> 
> There are two different types of times that can found in signed
statements.
> The first is going to be a time field associated with the data.  This is
the
> current approach that is used for the JWT in that part of the claims about
the
> token itself is the time that the claims in the token are created.  The
second
> time field is associated with the signing operation and is a claim not
about the
> content but about the signature.  This is a signing time.  The claims may
be
> attested to at a different time that the signature was created.
> 
> 
> Having a signing time is not an important issue for the JWT specification;
> however I believe that it will become an issue for cases where multiple
> people will be signing a single document.  These signatures may be either
> made in parallel or serialized but as they occur at different times
knowing a
> claimed signing time may be of interest.
> 
> 
> 
> Side note - I believe that the nonce question should be dropped until
> somebody makes a case for it that is related to signatures and not to
> protocols which is where I generally see nonces being used.  (That is for
> freshness checking or associating multiple documents in a single dialog.)
> 
> Jim
> 
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