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Re: [OAUTH-WG] FW: MAC: Cookie name or value as MAC key id

Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com> Wed, 15 June 2011 06:31 UTC

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From: Adam Barth <ietf@adambarth.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 23:30:45 -0700
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To: Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com>
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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] FW: MAC: Cookie name or value as MAC key id
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On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:00 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav <eran@hueniverse.com> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: oauth-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>> Of Manger, James H
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:06 PM
>> To: oauth
>> Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] FW: MAC: Cookie name or value as MAC key id
>>
>> P.S. id=<cookie-name> is not ideal for indicating which MAC cookie is being
>> used as there can be multiple cookies with the same cookie-name (eg set
>> from sibling domains).
>
> I'll let Adam answer that.

Yeah, that's a corner case that sucks.  Turns out cookie suck in a lot
of ways like that.  :)

Adam

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