Re: [KEYPROV] Giving up on XML DSig => JSON

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Thu, 29 August 2013 08:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [KEYPROV] Giving up on XML DSig => JSON
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You wrote:

> Since Google doesn't support XSD or XML DSig in Android I began
> looking at other alternatives. There were none :-( Now there is :-)
> 
> https://openkeystore.googlecode.com/svn/resources/trunk/docs/Enveloped-JSON-Signatures.pdf

Did you implement JWS or something else?  If the latter, why not JWS?
It seems to be where everyone in the JSON-world is headed.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-jones-json-web-signature-04

/Simon