Re: [OAUTH-WG] Facebook's experience with OAuth2.0 signatures

2010-07-28 Thread Paul Tarjan
From http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/canvas Why is the signature first? Doing a left split is usually easier than a right one. It also allows us to pursue other encodings, like hex for the signature and percent encoding for the payload. Why is it called signed_request? It's t

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Facebook's experience with OAuth2.0 signatures

2010-07-27 Thread Nat Sakimura
Thanks for sharing! One question: Was there a particular reason for having signature first instead of the payload? On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:18 AM, Paul Tarjan wrote: > Facebook released an early version of the proposed signature method, with the > aim of getting real-life implementation experi

Re: [OAUTH-WG] Facebook's experience with OAuth2.0 signatures

2010-07-26 Thread Dick Hardt
Thanks for sharing Paul! On 2010-07-26, at 3:18 PM, Paul Tarjan wrote: > Facebook released an early version of the proposed signature method, with the > aim of getting real-life implementation experience. We are not currently > using this for protected resource requests, but rather more like if

[OAUTH-WG] Facebook's experience with OAuth2.0 signatures

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Tarjan
Facebook released an early version of the proposed signature method, with the aim of getting real-life implementation experience. We are not currently using this for protected resource requests, but rather more like if the authorization server returned signed data as part of the access token res