Re: [OAUTH-WG] MAC: Age in nonce

2011-11-21 Thread Michael Thomas
By unique, does that mean statistically unique or verifiably unique? That is, do I need store the nonce or can I just gin up a bunch of entropy of suitable collision resistance? The latter is generally preferable. Mike Blaine Cook wrote: +1. This is good. On 19 November 2011 16:41, Eran Hammer

Re: [OAUTH-WG] MAC: Age in nonce

2011-11-21 Thread Blaine Cook
+1. This is good. On 19 November 2011 16:41, Eran Hammer-Lahav wrote: > We had a long discussion about what to use for the numerical component of > the nonce string. I would like to suggest we use: > > > >    nonce > > REQUIRED.  A unique string generated by the client to allow the > >  

[OAUTH-WG] MAC: Age in nonce

2011-11-19 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
We had a long discussion about what to use for the numerical component of the nonce string. I would like to suggest we use: nonce REQUIRED. A unique string generated by the client to allow the server to verify that a request has never been made before and helps prev