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

[Mike Jones <[e-mail]>]

The payload and the ciphertext are actually quite different kinds of fields - in particular, one is plain text and the other is encrypted.  Calling them both "data" would blur this distinction and potentially cause confusion.  I'd rather that we continued using different names when the things being named are different.

                                                            -- Mike

From: Richard Barnes [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 8:43 AM
To: Vladimir Dzhuvinov / NimbusDS
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Subject: Re: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization

"iv" and "tag" would be OK.  I still prefer "mac" over "tag", for consistency with CMS, and just because I think MAC is a more uniformly used phrase.

What about "data" for "payload" and "ciphertext"?

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Vladimir Dzhuvinov / NimbusDS <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
+1 for "iv" and "tag"

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization
From: Mike Jones <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Tue, May 07, 2013 10:40 pm
To: Richard Barnes <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, Jim Schaad <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Cc: "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>"
<[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>, jose issue tracker
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  What about "iv" and "tag"?  For the other names, I'd
actually prefer staying with those that are full words rather than those
that are abbreviations of words, since they're more descriptive.  But
I agree that "initialization_vector" and "authentication_tag"
were overkill.

                                                             -- Mike

 From: Richard Barnes [mailto:[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>]
 Sent: Monday, May 06, 2013 2:51 PM
 To: Jim Schaad
 Cc: jose issue tracker;
[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>; [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>
 Subject: 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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 > Subject: [jose] #20: Shorter names for JSON serialization
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 > #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  ||
 >
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 >
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 > -------------------------+---
 >  Reporter:  [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>   |      Owner:  draft-ietf-jose-json-web-
 >      Type:  defect       |  [e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>
 >  Priority:  minor        |     Status:  new
 > Component:  json-web-    |  Milestone:
 >   encryption             |    Version:
 >  Severity:  -            |   Keywords:
 >
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 > Ticket URL: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/jose/trac/ticket/20>
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