Hi Ludwig,

It might depend on what you mean by “client”, and what you mean by “choose”.

I’m going to assume we don’t want humans involved at any stage, since they are 
bad at choosing things. So I’m assuming “client” means some element on the 
device.
The original concern may have been about a client device’s ability to generate 
reliably random values. The assumption may have been that the AS would 
generally have a better chance of accessing sufficient entropy in support of 
key generation, and possibly be harder to subvert?

Just a thought.

R

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> From: Ludwig Seitz <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Ace] Question about an issue in draft-ietf-ace-oauth-authz
> Date: 24 August 2017 at 10:03:49 GMT+1
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> Hello list,
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> I've got a very specific question about an issue raised by Jim Schaad 
> (https://github.com/LudwigSeitz/ace-oauth/issues/98):
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> Currently the draft RECOMMENDS to disallow the client from choosing a 
> specific symmetric key for proof-of-possession (i.e. we want the AS to 
> generate one) when interacting with the /token endpoint at the AS.
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> I cannot remember why we specified it that way, so should we drop that 
> recommendation?
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