[OAUTH-WG] Best practices on client_id

Antonio Tapiador del Dujo <atapiador@dit.upm.es> Fri, 25 January 2013 14:07 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Best practices on client_id
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Are there any recommendations for the authorization server when 
generating a client_id. Any security consideration? Should the client_id 
be a random string or it is save being just the database primary key?

Kind regards.