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Re: [Unbearable] JWS

Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com> Fri, 24 July 2015 18:09 UTC

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From: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Unbearable] JWS
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On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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> Why aren't we using JWS?


This comes to mind:

https://auth0.com/blog/2015/03/31/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/

What about interop with non-JWS/JWT bearer token formats?

(Or perhaps I misunderstand what you mean by "using JWS"?)

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Tony Arcieri

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