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Re: [OAUTH-WG] Change grant_type="none" to something less confusing

Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com> Mon, 19 July 2010 21:31 UTC

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client credentials works for me as well.

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Justin Richer <jricher@mitre.org> wrote:
> "client_credentials" is fine with me for the name of this grant type.
> I'd also like the paragraph describing its use to be pulled out into a
> subsection, to be parallel with all the other grant types.
>
>  -- Justin
>
> On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 15:51 -0400, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote:
>> client_credentials worked fine before. I'll just replace none with that. No one had an issue with the name in -05.
>>
>> EHL
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>> On Jul 17, 2010, at 15:49, Brian Eaton <beaton@google.com> wrote:
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>> > On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Luke Shepard <lshepard@facebook.com> wrote:
>> >> As far as consistency, it is just a little weird to call it "client password" in one
>> >> part of the spec, when it's defined as "client secret" elsewhere.
>> >
>> > Agreed, we could be more consistent.  The value we're talking about is
>> > the same in all of the flows, no sense in switching terminology.
>> >
>> > I prefer client_password, because "password", for me, evokes all the
>> > right kinds of security concerns.  Password storage, encryption on the
>> > wire, etc...
>> >
>> > I'm less happy with client_secret, though I can certainly live with
>> > it.  My main concern with client_secret is that people might confuse
>> > it with a signing secret.  The value is not used for signing.  If we
>> > are going to have flows where clients have secrets that are used for
>> > cryptographic authentication, then I would want to call those "keys"
>> > instead.
>> >
>> >> How about just "client_only" ?
>> >
>> > That would be fine by me.
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