On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2010-07-10, at 1:21 PM, David Recordon wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Dick Hardt <dick.ha...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> * the signature comes before the payload
>> * we used the key 'algorithm' instead of 'alg' and 'expires' instead of
>> 'not_before'
>>
>>
>> Good points to add to the discussion. Perhaps you would articulate why you
>> made those choices?
>>
>
> I think Naitik talked about the signature coming before the payload in this
> thread. Through implementations we've found that lsplit is easier in some
> languages.
>
>
> I think having an envelope as the first blob enables a parser to know what
> to do with the rest of the blobs, and that this trumps the mionor lsplit
> argument.
>

And we think that adding an envelope creates unnecessary complexity for both
server and client developers for the signature use cases.

--David
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