[security] OIC self-issued mode is insecure

Manger, James James.H.Manger at team.telstra.com
Tue Mar 4 03:49:56 UTC 2014


> OPs would still send "sub", since the pair ("iss", "sub") is the
> universal account identifier for OpenID Connect.  It would just be
> computed in the specified manner.

I don't think that follows, Mike.
OP sends sub_jwk; RP calculates sub; now RP has {iss,sub} to use as universal account id; regardless of whether sub was also transmitted. Better to save some bytes; and eliminate an error condition (sub & sub_jwk mismatching).

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James Manger


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