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Re: [secdir] [jose] JWK member names, was: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-31

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 16 September 2014 14:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] [jose] JWK member names, was: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-jose-json-web-key-31
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Tim,

> When I talk about existing software I'm referring to generic JSON 
> parsers such as are included in the basic library set of every 
> programming language now, and which are unfortunately idiosyncratic 
> and inconsistent in their handling of dupe keys, but in almost no 
> cases actually inform the calling software whether or not dupe keys 
> were encountered.
Thanks for the clarifying comments. I am still a bit puzzled, though. I 
thought JWK was
a proposal to establish JSON formats for key transport. Are you saying 
that the formats we are
about to standardize have been in use in JSON for a while and that's why 
parsers are not
prepared to reject dupe keys?  Or is this a lower layer, JS issue re 
partsing?

Steve

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