[Openid-specs-ab] Id_token signature type

Nat Sakimura sakimura at gmail.com
Wed May 4 13:35:49 UTC 2011


In addition: I think these variables should be added under the request key
"openid".
That is an extension point for ABC requests.

=nat

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:31 PM, Nat Sakimura <sakimura at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry - Again it went to spam folder...
>
> Yes, that is fine by me in general.
> For the sake of consistency, I would propose to use "alg" instead of
> "algorithm" as the parameter name, though.
>
> Having said that, if the alg is RS* or EC*, we may want to send the keyinfo
> as well,
> either as JWK url or the URL of the PEM file etc.
>
> =nat
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 12:53 AM, Breno de Medeiros <breno at google.com>wrote:
>
>> Another topic discussed during last meeting of the OpenID ABC WG was
>> how a relying party would indicate that the id_token should be
>> symmetrically versus asymmetrically signed.
>>
>> A concrete proposal would be to add a parameter, say
>> algorithm=<standard algorithm name>, where <standard algorithm name>
>> is one of the possible defined values for 'alg' in the JWT.
>>
>> This parameter would be sent to the endpoint that returns the
>> access_token.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
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>> --Breno
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