Subject: Re: [tram] Errata 4923 on RFC7635

From: Magnus Westerlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 15:41:54 +0000

Hi,

I will put this into hold for document update. It appears that this whole
applendix is potentially dead anyway as the draft it depends on has not yet been
published and was last updated in 2019. 

Cheers

Magnus

On Wed, 2020-09-23 at 14:29 +0000, Magnus Westerlund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to get some feedback on what to do with this Errata?
> 
> 
https://protect2.fireeye.com/v1/url?k=94a29ef2-ca027e66-94a2de69-86d2114eab2f-539e6c232f131c74&q=1&e=675ca314-74c0-494a-8d82-387c2de12999&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rfc-editor.org%2Ferrata%2Feid4923
> 
> Errata ID: 4923
> Status: Reported
> Type: Technical
> Publication Format(s) : TEXT
> Reported By: Mészáros Mihály
> Date Reported: 2017-02-03
> 
> Section Appendix B. says:
> 
>           "key":"v51N62OM65kyMvfTI08O"
> 
> It should say:
> 
>         "key": "ew0KICAgICJrdHkiOiJvY3QiLA0KICAgICJ
> raWQiOiJpZDEyMyIsDQogICAgImFsZyI6IkhTMjU2IiwNCiAgIC
> AiayI6IlpvUlNPckZ6Tl9GelVBNVhLTVlvVkh5emZmNW9SSnhsL
> UlYUnR6dEo2dUUiDQp9"
> 
> Notes:
> 
> "key" according 
> 
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-pop-key-distribution-02#section-4.2
> "The 'key' parameter either contains a plain JWK structure or a JWK encrypted
> with a JWE."
> 
> According Example Figure 2. "key" in draft-ietf-oauth-pop-key-distribution-
> 02#section-4.2
> It seems they missed to write plain JWK MUST be base64 format.
> So according the example coorected the above sentence:
> 
> "The 'key' parameter either contains a plain BASE64 ENCODED JWK structure or a
> JWK encrypted with a JWE."
> 
> Anyhow in RFC7635 Appendix B. the
> "key" seems to be not in base64 (JWK) or JWE encrypted JWK format.
> (Base64 decoded key value string is "Salted__"....) 
> 
> -- 
> Cheers
> 
> Magnus Westerlund 
> 
> 
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