Re: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization

Even that's the name for the corresponding field in CMS AuthEnvelopedData
and AuthenticatedData?

On Monday, May 6, 2013, Jim Schaad wrote:

> I would be againist calling the authentication_tag mac.  I don't object to
> something like AuthTag.  It is not necessarily a MAC in all cases so
> calling
> it one make thing problematical - much like calling a mac a sig.
>
> Jim
>
>
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> > To: draft-ietf-jose-json-web-encryption@tools.ietf.org <javascript:;>;
> rlb@ipv.sx
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> > Subject: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization
> >
> > #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization
> >
> >  I noticed as I was doing some programming with the JSON syntax for
> JWE/JWS
> > that the current field names in the JSON format are unnecessarily
> > cumbersome.  Nobody in the real world names a variable
> >  "initialization_vector", it's "iv".   Proposed changes:
> >
> >  || OLD                     || NEW  ||
> >  || signatures              || sigs ||
> >  || signature               || sig  ||
> >  || payload                 || data ||
> >  || recipients              || keys ||
> >  || ciphertext              || data ||
> >  || initialization_vector   || iv   ||
> >  || authentication_tag      || mac  ||
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------+----------------------------------------------
> > -------------------------+---
> >  Reporter:  rlb@ipv.sx   |      Owner:  draft-ietf-jose-json-web-
> >      Type:  defect       |  encryption@tools.ietf.org <javascript:;>
> >  Priority:  minor        |     Status:  new
> > Component:  json-web-    |  Milestone:
> >   encryption             |    Version:
> >  Severity:  -            |   Keywords:
> > -------------------------+----------------------------------------------
> > -------------------------+---
> >
> > Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/jose/trac/ticket/20>
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