Another resend at the request of the list admin. Apologies if you get this multiple times.
...Mark On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Mark Watson <[email protected]> wrote: > All, > > Currently, the JWK "use" attribute effectively distinguishes between JWE > ("enc") and JWA ("sign"). > > However, additional uses can be added to the registry and the W3C > WebCrypto group is planning to register use values corresponding to the > KeyUsage values defined for WebCrypto Key objects. These KeyUsage values > include, for example, encrypt, decrypt, sign, verify, wrap, unwrap etc. > > A WebCrypto Key object may have multiple KeyUsages and so we have a > question as to how to represent that in JWK. > > One proposal is to allow the use string to contain a comma-separated list > of values. We could register such a scheme directly with IANA. > > It would be cleaner, though, since this is JSON, to allow this attribute > to have Array type where two or more usages are to be represented (it would > remain a string for the single-usage case). I've also had some negative > feedback from implemetors about the comma-separated-value idea along > yet-another-string-parser lines. > > Would it be possible to modify the Registry for JWK use values to allow > data types other than String to be registered ? > > ...Mark > > >
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