Hi guys

just a small comment.

Encryption in the Security Token is used for privacy, and the Signature is
used for consistency (aka, no spoofing)

besides that detail, what chris explained is cool.

my 2 cent

ropu

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The token is something that is generated by the container (the social
> network site), and is digested by shindig and it contains the:
> - owner id
> - viewer id
> - app id
> - module id
> - gadget url
> - container name
>
> Javascript has nothing to do with this, except that it passes the binary
> encrypted blob along from it's iframe url value (the container put it
> there), to the social back-end calls it makes (aka shindig).
>
> The reason it needs to be encrypted is because it provides the security
> that the owner == the actual owner and the viewer == the actual viewer,
> without the protection from encryption you could fake your own token and
> pretend to be anyone... which is bad :)
>
> Now the confusion probably comes from the fact that the -static demo
> container- uses a fake, plain text, demo token .. in the format of
> "owner:viewer:etc:etc". This is just because it's hard to make proper
> encrypted tokens in javascript, and because it's kind of nice to be able to
> edit it in a demo environment ... however this is *not* at all meant for
> anything like a real site / situation and is only there for demo reasons! So
> all that plain text token stuff you see in javascript, please just forget
> you saw that when your thinking about a real implementation :)
>
>   -- Chris
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:26 AM, nvgigigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I do implement the all shindig thing in our web site and did test with
>> a non encoded secure token (everything was working pretty well)
>> except that I cant found the right way to use an encoded secure token
>> now.
>> I'm using the javascript to create a valid container so I guess it's
>> somewhere inside the javascript?
>>
>> I saw in partuza that you're using PHP to generate the container, and
>> I understand the code, but I didn't understand in JS
>>
>> Thanks for your help
>>
>>
>
> >
>


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