On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Torsten Lodderstedt <
[email protected]> wrote:

> **
> No, it's not simpler nor clearer. Such a client secret is useless, so the
> security implications have to be explained anyway.
>

The issue really isn't the security implications being unclear; the issue is
that the normative language that describes the protocol flows is ambiguous.

Moreover, whatever the spec will state people would start to _rely_ on
> client secrets even for native apps, which is a really bad idea.
>

OK, so you are arguing that baking the string "notasecret" into a client
application makes that client application less secure.  That's not really
plausible.
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