client_credentials worked fine before. I'll just replace none with that. No one 
had an issue with the name in -05. 

EHL



On Jul 17, 2010, at 15:49, Brian Eaton <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Luke Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
>> As far as consistency, it is just a little weird to call it "client 
>> password" in one
>> part of the spec, when it's defined as "client secret" elsewhere.
> 
> Agreed, we could be more consistent.  The value we're talking about is
> the same in all of the flows, no sense in switching terminology.
> 
> I prefer client_password, because "password", for me, evokes all the
> right kinds of security concerns.  Password storage, encryption on the
> wire, etc...
> 
> I'm less happy with client_secret, though I can certainly live with
> it.  My main concern with client_secret is that people might confuse
> it with a signing secret.  The value is not used for signing.  If we
> are going to have flows where clients have secrets that are used for
> cryptographic authentication, then I would want to call those "keys"
> instead.
> 
>> How about just "client_only" ?
> 
> That would be fine by me.
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