Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token Best Current Practices draft describing Explicit Typing

Resurrecting the thread that had a request for more guidance around how to
use the explicit typing with nested JWTs. As discussed/requested during the
WG meeting.

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 5:55 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> Good point.  I’d had that thought as well at one point but failed to
> express it in the draft.  Will do.
>
>
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>                                                        -- Mike
>
>
>
> *From:* Brian Campbell [mailto:bcampbell@pingidentity.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, July 17, 2017 11:53 AM
> *To:* Phil Hunt (IDM) <phil.hunt@oracle.com>
> *Cc:* Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>; oauth@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OAUTH-WG] JSON Web Token Best Current Practices draft
> describing Explicit Typing
>
>
>
> Could some more guidance be provided around how to use the explicit typing
> with nested JWTs?
>
> I'd imagine that the "typ" header should be in the header of the JWT that
> is integrity protected by the issuer?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Phil Hunt (IDM) <phil.hunt@oracle.com>
> wrote:
>
> +1
>
>
>
> Thanks Mike.
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2017, at 12:43 PM, Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
> The JWT BCP draft has been updated to describe the use of explicit typing
> of JWTs as one of the ways to prevent confusion among different kinds of
> JWTs.  This is accomplished by including an explicit type for the JWT in
> the “typ” header parameter.  For instance, the Security Event Token (SET)
> specification <http://self-issued.info/?p=1709> now uses the “
> application/secevent+jwt” content type to explicitly type SETs.
>
>
>
> The specification is available at:
>
>    - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sheffer-oauth-jwt-bcp-01
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>
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> An HTML-formatted version is also available at:
>
>    - http://self-issued.info/docs/draft-sheffer-oauth-jwt-bcp-01.html
>
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>                                                        -- Mike
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> P.S.  This notice was also posted at http://self-issued.info/?p=1714 and
> as @selfissued <https://twitter.com/selfissued>.
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