[jose] IBM patent on JSON Signatures

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Thu, 29 August 2013 12:43 UTC

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http://patents.justia.com/patent/20100185869

This patent doesn't appear to apply to JWS but to my take on JSON signatures:

https://openkeystore.googlecode.com/svn/resources/trunk/docs/Enveloped-JSON-Signatures.pdf

I got this information from the patentee :-(

It is of course a bit reassuring to not be alone with an idea...

Cheers
Anders