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Re: [OAUTH-WG] [COSE] A draft on CBOR Web Tokens (CWT)

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Mon, 16 November 2015 22:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] [COSE] A draft on CBOR Web Tokens (CWT)
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Bill Mills wrote:
> If there are structural differences in what CBOR can support it would be
> worthwhile to note that.  Examples of things supported in JWT that you
> can't do in CBOR could be very helpful to implementers.

Those don't exist, but there may be things you have to do in JSON that
you can (and want to) do in a better way in CBOR.

Grüße, Carsten

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