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Re: [jose] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-33: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Ted Lemon <Ted.Lemon@nominum.com> Tue, 07 October 2014 02:09 UTC

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Subject: Re: [jose] Stephen Farrell's Discuss on draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-33: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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On Oct 6, 2014, at 5:44 PM, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> wrote:
> Because there will be cases where two different implementations
> with code try to create the same key id from its components and
> get it wrong otherwise. Not all cases, but some.

Right, but as currently written, this will happen in _all_ cases, not just in special cases.

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