On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Shane B Weeden <swee...@au1.ibm.com> wrote:

> Brain - can you elaborate on that a little? Are you suggesting that clients
> that can't keep secrets use a dummy (notasecret) pwd anyway to satisfy
> "requiring client authentication"?
>

Or use random secrets.  Whatever floats your boat and keeps your product
managers happy.  It does not make a practical security difference for
installed applications.

What seems to be missing in the discussion and the security considerations
> of the spec is a decent list of general and grant-type-specific security
> implications/pros/cons for the system if meaningful client authentication
> at the token endpoint is available or not available.
>

Yep.
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