Re: [Acme] ACME draft is now in WGLC.

Jacob Hoffman-Andrews <jsha@eff.org> Mon, 13 February 2017 20:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Acme] ACME draft is now in WGLC.
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On 02/12/2017 10:09 PM, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> JWS is great for what is was originally designed for.  ES6 normalization
> nullifies the need for dressing JSON data in Base64Url.
Could you clarify this comment? Are you proposing that ACME should not
wrap internal fields in another layer of base64url? Or that the JWS spec
should be revised to not wrap payloads in base64url?