On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Nat Sakimura <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
>
> Inline:
>
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Dirk Balfanz <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Torsten Lodderstedt
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Dirk,
>>>
>>> I have some questions concerning your proposal:
>>>
>>> - As far as I understand, the difference to "magic signatures" lays in the
>>> usage of a JSON token carrying issuer, not_before, not_after and audience.
>>> While such properties are important for security tokens (assertions), I
>>> cannot see an advantage of using this format for signatures of HTTP
>>> requests. Would you please explain?
>>
>> You mean advantage over magic signatures? It's really a similar idea - it's
>> just that magic signatures as is don't quite fit the bill. For example, they
>> have newlines in
>> them: http://salmon-protocol.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/draft-panzer-magicsig-00.html#anchor5
>
> Well, they MAY, but they do not have to. Would not profiling Magic
> Signatures so that it does not contain newlines do?
>

e.g., base64url_encode(magic_sig_envelope).

Downside of course is that it is one more base64url_encode.
I really do not have much preference of one over another, but I have
some preference on the convergence of the two.

-- 
Nat Sakimura (=nat)
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