Re: [Rats] clarity on JWT vs YANG-serialization: base64 vs base64url

Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> Mon, 11 November 2019 14:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rats] clarity on JWT vs YANG-serialization: base64 vs base64url
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Having multiple ways to do one thing was never a good idea.  COSE would suffice.
Regarding the Base64-encoding of X5C objects, the rational was to be PEM compatible which also was a pretty bad idea since X5C simply isn't PEM compatible by a long shot.

Both are excellent examples of "design by committee".

Anders

On 2019-11-11 13:18, Henk Birkholz wrote:
> A single reply in-line.
> 
> On 11.11.19 12:48, Michael Richardson wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 2019-11-11 6:11 p.m., Henk Birkholz wrote:
>>> Hi Michael,
>>>
>>> you are bringing up an issue that might look tiny, but I think you are
>>> right when you say: "it will catch at least one implementer".
>>
>> I started a private discussion with Mike Jones and Tim Bray a few weeks
>> ago about a clarifying BCP about always using base64URL in JSON going
>> forward.  (I thought I had posted this to a list.)
>> Or... would an errata be enough?
>> That would put the current serialization of YANG (RFC7951) on the wrong
>> side of the tracks, which is unfortunate.
> 
> This is what I meant by "not easy". Both are used already. The technical
> differences (see below) are not that big, I agree.
> 
>>
>>> And there is no easy fix for his, it seems? JWT is set, and YANG
>>> modeled data, such as RFC 7951, is also set. I am not sure that there
>>> is a thing such as "tolerant decoders" in practice, I am afraid.
>>
>> It's not hard, there are only two characters:
>>     62 is either +(original) or -
>>     63 is either / (original) or _
>>
>> I was rather surprised that common implementations didn't just accept
>> both already.
>> I stubbed my toe on this when processing Jim Schaad's excellent JOSE
>> reference vectors, and couldn't figure out why one of the public keys
>> was too short, until I learnt that the decoder I was using just stopped
>> when it got an invalid character, and I was using base64 rather than
>> base64url.
>>
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