Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> So, this proposes to use CBOR to "compress" JSON, preserving JWT/JOSE
    >> signatures, rather than using CWT.  I'm not sure what I think of this as 
yet.

    > My summary: JSCN is great if you actually *have* to process
    > JOSE-signed/-encrypted material (such as JWTs) on a device on a
    > constrained network.  JSCN is more compact than pure JOSE.  It does,
    > however, carry all the complexity that JSON brings with it down to the
    > device: You need to reconstruct actual JSON to generate the signing
    > inputs.

Agreed.

    > If the source of the protected material can be made constrained-aware,
    > COSE and CWTs are the better choice.  One of the objectives of the
    > two-tier architecture of constrained/less-constrained devices is to
    > keep as much of the business logic and complexity up in the
    > less-constrained devices, which then provide simple, unambiguous
    > instructions to the constrained devices.  But even if you don’t have
    > that architecture, in a new protocol you can avoid the complexity that
    > would limit coverage of low-resource, low-energy devices.

I agree. I see it easier to teach non-constrained devices new tricks.
I'm not convinced we can use any of the deployed JOSE infrastructure
*completely* unchanged, so as long as changes are needed...


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