Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-02-19 Thread John Panzer
Luke, Thanks again for writing all of this up in such a cogent way. Some comments inline: On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Luke Shepard wrote: > In the discussions around the OAuth WRAP spec, one of the questions often > asked is, “why use SSL exclusively?” Several of us have done a lot of >

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-29 Thread Hurliman, John
ammer-Lahav Cc: Luke Shepard; oauth@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav mailto:e...@hueniverse.com>> wrote: (For the sake of simplicity, I am going to refer to the Plain bearer toke

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-29 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
> will only work with a single algorithm (which is better cryptographic > hygiene). > So a vendor can choose to allow the client to pick the algorithm they want to > you, or just tell them which one they are going to use. > > EHL > > > > From: Luke Shepard [mailto:ls

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-29 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
f.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Eran Hammer-Lahav mailto:e...@hueniverse.com>> wrote: (For the sake of simplicity, I am going to refer to the Plain bearer token with SSL/TLS as S-Plain) WRAP appeal

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread Luke Shepard
mailto:lshep...@facebook.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:36 PM To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; oauth@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication Thanks for the detailed reply, Eran. I think that your proposed design has it backwards: servers sho

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread David Recordon
ithm they want to you, or just tell them > which one they are going to use. > > > > EHL > > > > > > *From:* Luke Shepard [mailto:lshep...@facebook.com] > *Sent:* Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:36 PM > *To:* Eran Hammer-Lahav; oauth@ietf.org > *Subject:* Re: [OAUTH-WG] Di

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
From: Luke Shepard [mailto:lshep...@facebook.com] Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 6:36 PM To: Eran Hammer-Lahav; oauth@ietf.org Subject: Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication Thanks for the detailed reply, Eran. I think that your proposed design has it backward

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread Luke Shepard
e Shepard Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:30 AM To: oauth@ietf.org Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication In the discussions around the OAuth WRAP spec, one of the questions often asked is, "why use SSL exclusively?" Several of us have done

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
lly compliant way. EHL From: oauth-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:oauth-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Luke Shepard Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 7:30 AM To: oauth@ietf.org Subject: [OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication In the discussions around the OAuth WR

[OAUTH-WG] Discussion of SSL as the primary means for OAuth communication

2010-01-28 Thread Luke Shepard
In the discussions around the OAuth WRAP spec, one of the questions often asked is, "why use SSL exclusively?" Several of us have done a lot of thinking on it and I wanted to articulate my understanding of the pros and cons of the approach for discussion. The use case I primarily have in mind is