[OAUTH-WG] JWT binding for OAuth 2.0

Prabath Siriwardena <prabath@wso2.com> Tue, 14 April 2015 21:25 UTC

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Subject: [OAUTH-WG] JWT binding for OAuth 2.0
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At the moment we only HTTP binding to transport the access token (please
correct me if not)..

This creates a dependency on the transport.

How about creating a JWT binding for OAuth 2.0..? We can transport the
access token as an encrypted JWT header parameter..?


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