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Re: [jose] JPSK: JWKs with private RSA/EC params only?

Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> Mon, 18 March 2013 18:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] JPSK: JWKs with private RSA/EC params only?
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For what it's worth, my reading of the spec was that a JWK would be a 
keypair or a public key, but never just the private key on its own. 
(Symmetric keys are their own thing, of course.)

  -- Justin

On 03/18/2013 05:40 AM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov / NimbusDS wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Justin and I began an implementation of
> draft-jones-jose-json-private-and-symmetric-key-00 for the Nimbus
> library. We're now able to represent the regular public RSA/EC JWKs as
> well as JWKs that contain both public+private RSA/EC params. Does the
> draft also envision JWK objects which include only private key
> parameters? I.e. a JWK object for the public params and then another for
> the private params? My reading of the spec couldn't answer this
> question. Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Vladimir
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