Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] I-D Action: draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq-12.txt

From: Denis <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 16:32:59 +0100

Nat,

This new version 12 contains nice editorial improvements. However, you 
have not yet responded to my email
from February 9 th sent during the LC which contains substantial comments.

Denis

> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Web Authorization Protocol of the IETF.
>
>          Title           : The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: JWT Secured Authorization Request (JAR)
>          Authors         : Nat Sakimura
>                            John Bradley
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq-12.txt
> 	Pages           : 26
> 	Date            : 2017-02-13
>
> Abstract:
>     The authorization request in OAuth 2.0 described in RFC 6749 utilizes
>     query parameter serialization, which means that Authorization Request
>     parameters are encoded in the URI of the request and sent through
>     user agents such as web browsers.  While it is easy to implement, it
>     means that (a) the communication through the user agents are not
>     integrity protected and thus the parameters can be tainted, and (b)
>     the source of the communication is not authenticated.  Because of
>     these weaknesses, several attacks to the protocol have now been put
>     forward.
>
>     This document introduces the ability to send request parameters in a
>     JSON Web Token (JWT) instead, which allows the request to be signed
>     with JSON Web Signature (JWS) and/or encrypted with JSON Web
>     Encryption (JWE) so that the integrity, source authentication and
>     confidentiality property of the Authorization Request is attained.
>     The request can be sent by value or by reference.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq/
>
> There's also a htmlized version available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq-12
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq-12
>
>
> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>
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>
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