Greetings,

I had some discussions with security experts inside my company (Sun)
about
OAuth's signature methods and a couple issues were raised.

The first one was about the decision to only define SHA1 and HMAC1
when they've
been reckoned as "weak" and NIST itself recommends switching to SHA2
digests?
I've read the archives (not all I'll admit) and only found comments on
the lack of
support for SHA256 which seems unfounded at this point.

The second issue was to not mandate at least 1 signature method. This
could lead
to bad situations like having 2 conforming implementations not being
able to
interoperate.

Are those points part of topics to be resolved during the IETF
process?

Cheers,
Hubert

PS: I've blogged there (http://bug4free.wordpress.com/2008/11/28/
digital-signature-in-oauth/)
      about this and would like to write follow-ups on this topic
based on your responses.
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