I would love to attend the BOF in Prague on this topic.

Thanks,
Bret
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> On Nov 3, 2018, at 11:52 AM, Anders Rundgren <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-10-29 14:38, Tim Bray wrote:
>> I like Samuel Erdtman's idea of starting with an open-source implementation. 
>>  If I see one of those, with a convincing set of test cases, I'd be inclined 
>> to make the case for spinning up a working group.
>> The argument isn't "Would it be useful?" it's "Can it be done?" So, start by 
>> proving it can.
> 
> Things are progressing:
> https://github.com/dotnet/coreclr/pull/20707#issuecomment-435536433
> A coming version of the .NET platform should then be fully compatible with 
> the proposed scheme.
> 
> Anyway, since there are two quite distinct ways of addressing this topic, I'm 
> thinking about a BoF session in Prague as a possible next step.
> 
> WDYT?
> 
> Anders
> 
>> On Mon., Oct. 29, 2018, 1:33 a.m. Anders Rundgren 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>    On 2018-10-28 21:32, Samuel Erdtman wrote:
>>     > In my opinion we can create a good canonicalization format for JSON to 
>> be used to sign cleartext JSON.
>>     >
>>     > As can be seen on this list many are skeptical so my approach would be 
>> to publish easy to use open source implementations.
>>    Yes, and part of that is supplying test data like: 
>> https://github.com/cyberphone/json-canonicalization/tree/master/testdata
>>    The Microsoft folks developing "Chakra" (their JS engine) already use the 
>> 100 million reference values.
>>     > If we do that and there is real interest then we might be able to 
>> convince people here about the need. In line with this ambition I have done 
>> the JS and Java publications. This might also show there is no actual 
>> interest and then that is also an outcome.
>>    Well, another part of the standards puzzle is getting early work into 
>> real products and services.
>>    FWIW, I'm personally involved in a couple of efforts using clear text 
>> JSON signatures:
>>    - Saturn, an open payment authorization scheme based on an enhanced "four 
>> corner" trust model which aims giving banks an upper hand against Apple Pay, 
>> Google Pay, PayPal, etc.
>>    - Mobile ID, an open, PKI-based, multi-issuer mobile authentication and 
>> signature solution for e-governments.
>>    Regards,
>>    Anders
>>     > Best regards
>>     > //Samuel
>>     >
>>     >
>>     > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 8:44 AM Carsten Bormann <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> wrote:
>>     >
>>     >     On Oct 22, 2018, at 04:47, David Waite 
>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> 
>> <mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>> 
>> wrote:
>>     >      >
>>     >      > intermittent interoperability failures until a new language 
>> runtime release which revises the numerical print and parse functions
>>     >
>>     >     Note that this is not a theoretical concern, as CVE-2010-4476 and 
>> CVE-2010-4645 amply demonstrate, nicely underscored by the re-occurrence of 
>> the latter in 
>> https://www.exploringbinary.com/php-converts-2-2250738585072012e-308-incorrectly/
>>     >
>>     >     Grüße, Carsten
>>     >
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