Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form

[Jim Schaad <[e-mail]>]

The working group has closed and is not entertaining any new work.  You would need to create a proposal for a new working group (could have the same name) to do this.  However, trying to canonicalize JSON is generally not considered to be doable without having some external constraints added.  Consider the problem with serializing {“int”: 3} which has a large number of possible ways to encode the number 3.

 

From: jose <[e-mail]> On Behalf Of Bret Jordan
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 1:49 PM
To: Nathaniel McCallum <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
Subject: Re: [jose] Canonical JSON form

 

Would this WG be open to working on a solution to sign JSON (not a byte stream) and define a canonical representation for said JSON?

 

 

Thanks,

Bret

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On Oct 10, 2018, at 1:15 PM, Nathaniel McCallum <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> > wrote:

 

JWS signs a byte stream, not JSON. If you want to use a JWS to sign
JSON data it is your responsibility to ensure that both sides produce
an equivalent byte stream.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:04 PM Bret Jordan <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]> > wrote:




Dear WG,

I was reading through RFC 7515 to see if it would work for a project I am working on.  Basically the need to sign and resign a JSON object.  However, in RFC 7515 there does not seem to be any definition for serializing a canonical form of JSON. This means that two organizations that serialize it differently would produce two different signatures.

Super simple example

{ “type” : “house”, “size” : “1000 sq feet” }



Or

{
 “type” : “house”,
 “size” : “1000 sq feet”
}



Or

{“type”:“house”,“size”:“1000 sq feet”}



Or (tabs not spaces)

{
“type” : “house”,
“size” : “1000 sq feet”
}


All four of these JSON structures would produce a different signature as defined by RFC 7515. What am I missing?


Thanks,
Bret
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