Re: [Json] [apps-discuss] JSON mailing list and BoF

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 20 February 2013 00:31 UTC

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On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 6:23 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com> wrote:
> As background, the JOSE specs require that equality comparisons for members
> be done as a comparison of Unicode code points, with no normalization or
> case folding performed.  See
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-jose-json-web-signature-08#section-8.3.

Was that because normalization is hard, mostly useless (most input
strings will already be NFC anyways), or for some other reason?

Nico
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