[OAUTH-WG] Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-oauth-jwsreq-30

2020-09-25 Thread Watson Ladd via Datatracker
Reviewer: Watson Ladd Review result: Serious Issues I generated this review of this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written with the intent of improving security requirements and considerat

[OAUTH-WG] Clarification on validation of the "x5c" parameter in JWKS

2020-09-25 Thread Yakov Shafranovich
Hi, I am trying to reconcile the security guidance provided by RFC 7517 and RFC 8725. My question is how to validate a key received from a JWKS endpoint if it contains a "x5c" parameter. In RFC 8725, section 3.8 it states: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8725.html#name-validate-issuer-and-subjec