Re: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Adoption - OAuth Proof of Possession Tokens with HTTP Message Signature

Neil Madden <neil.madden@forgerock.com> Thu, 07 October 2021 12:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Call for Adoption - OAuth Proof of Possession Tokens with HTTP Message Signature
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Canonicalised signature schemes inevitably lead to cryptographic doom, and should die with SAML (ha!). For that reason I do not support adoption of this draft. 

I also think the arguments for canonicalisation vanish as soon as you want end-to-end confidentiality too.

— Neil

> On 6 Oct 2021, at 22:02, Rifaat Shekh-Yusef <rifaat.s.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> All,
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> As a followup on the interim meeting today, this is a call for adoption for the OAuth Proof of Possession Tokens with HTTP Message Signature draft as a WG document:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-richer-oauth-httpsig/
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> Please, provide your feedback on the mailing list by October 20th.
> 
> Regards,
>  Rifaat & Hannes
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