Re: [OAUTH-WG] Basic signature support in the core specification

2010-09-26 Thread Dick Hardt
On 2010-09-25, at 7:52 PM, Eve Maler wrote: It seems like you figured it out pretty quickly, given the message you sent immediately after. :-) Referencing another spec from the core spec using normative text is effectively including it by reference. I meant that I'm sympathetic (+1) to

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Basic signature support in the core specification

2010-09-26 Thread Manger, James H
-1 to including a signature mechanism in OAuth2 core +1 to OAuth2 being clear about how it can deliver a secret key (and algorithm id etc) that can be used by a signature mechanism Firstly -- a mechanism to sign HTTP requests would be great, but should not be dependent on methods for users to

Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Manger, James H
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Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Manger, James H
Mike, A couple of comments on JWT: (I had to send something after accidentally sending an empty message to the list ;-) Section 4.1 Reserved claim names There isn't a JSON integer type, just a number type. The examples use a string value for exp, while I expected a number (I expected

Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Dick Hardt
Did you intentionally decide not to support encrypting the token? On 2010-09-23, at 5:22 PM, Mike Jones wrote: Recognizing that there is substantial interest in representing sets of claims in JSON tokens, Yaron Goland and I have put together a draft JSON Web Token (JWT) spec for that

Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Mike Jones
I'd be open to a proposal for also supporting encryption. The draft was intended to be a starting point for productive discussion - not a finished product. Your thoughts? -- Mike From: Dick Hardt [mailto:dick.ha...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token (JWT) Specification Draft

2010-09-26 Thread Dick Hardt
Don't put the signature information in the token, put it in a separate component (an envelope) that describes how the token is either signed or encrypted. See discussion from June: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/oauth/current/msg03211.html On 2010-09-26, at 9:20 PM, Mike Jones wrote: