Re: [dispatch] PING2. Re: JSON Canonicalization Standard

Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> Fri, 07 September 2018 20:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [dispatch] PING2. Re: JSON Canonicalization Standard
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XML Canonicalization and Signatures are notoriously brittle and difficult
to get right while also being the source of numerous serious security
vulnerabilities.  The JSON case is maybe simpler and thus somewhat less
prone to the same issues but, if history is any guide, it's really hard to
get right and is fertile ground for all kinds of attacks.



> JCS is quite similar to its XML counterpart, albeit much simpler. Signed
> XML data never needed to be Base64 encoded.

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