That works for me.

- m&m

Matt Miller - <[email protected]>
Cisco Systems, Inc.

On Sep 20, 2012, at 09:54, Vladimir Dzhuvinov / NimbusDS wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> If I understand correctly, the JWS and JWE specs say that the "x5c"
> parameter is a JSON string:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-05#section-4.1.6
> 
> The example:
> 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-05#appendix-B
> 
> 
> Wouldn't be more sensible to use a JSON array to represent the chain of
> X.509 certs? Instead of a string of concatenated B64 data with
> "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----" and "-----END CERTIFICATE-----"
> delimiters?
> 
> 
> My case for using a JSON array:
> 
> 1. A single parse of the header will do the chain as well - saves an
> extra non-JSON parse operation to split the x5c into chunks.
> 
> 2. Saves space.
> 
> 3. Makes better use of the existing JSON header structure.
> 
> 
> I suppose the current format was influenced by how X.509 chains are
> typically exported by programs for file transfer/storage. However, in
> the case of JWS/JWE, the x5c parameter will be created programmatically
> and there a JSON array fits better.
> 
> What do you guys think?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Vladimir
> 
> --
> Vladimir Dzhuvinov : www.NimbusDS.com : [email protected]
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