Re: [Ace] Francesca Palombini's Yes on draft-ietf-ace-dtls-authorize-16: (with COMMENT)

[Olaf Bergmann <[e-mail]>]

Hi Francesca,

On 2021-06-08, Francesca Palombini <[e-mail]> wrote:

> My turn to apologize for the late reply :) I went through the comment
> again and I believe I must have misread something. I am ok with the
> current text, or the previous one as well, if you'd rather not add
> this sentence.

Thanks for the followup — we have kept the new text in version -18.

> I do have one additional comment, which came out while looking this over again - about the following text:
>
>    correct public key in the DTLS handshake.  If the authorization
>    server has specified a "cnf" field in the access token response, the
>    client MUST use this key.  Otherwise, the client MUST use the public
>
> The access token is opaque to the client (as defined the ace
> framework), so the client is not necessarily able to read and extract
> the key it is supposed to use from it. If I am not mistaken, the
> correct way for the AS to tell the client what key to use would be to
> use the "cnf" field defined in Section 3.2 of oauth-params.

You are correct. That is basically what this text says (= if the AS has
provided the cnf in its response, the client has to use it).

Grüße
Olaf