[Openid-specs-ab] Registration: Additional JWE parameters for OpenID request object?

[Mike Jones]

We do have these parameters already for saying what the server will accept:
                              request_object_signing_alg_values_supported
                              request_object_encryption_alg_values_supported
                              request_object_encryption_enc_values_supported

We also have this parameter for requiring that the server only accept signed request objects:
                              request_object_signing_alg


Given that the RP can know what kinds of encrypted requests the server can accept, and it can tell the server to only accept signed requests, it seems OK to leave it up to the RP whether to send encrypted requests or not.  I understand the symmetry argument for these parameters, but I'm not sure they're actually useful enough to be worth adding.

Or does anyone really believe that we need to have the OP reject requests that are not encrypted?

				-- Mike

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From: openid-specs-ab-bounces at lists.openid.net [mailto:openid-specs-ab-bounces at lists.openid.net] On Behalf Of Vladimir Dzhuvinov / NimbusDS
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Subject: [Openid-specs-ab] Registration: Additional JWE parameters for OpenID request object?

Thank you guys for going through the reg issues I posted yesterday.

The spec says that the OpenID request object can also be signed. Should we then also have optional reg parameters for specifying JWE alg and enc?

I.e. 

signed_request_object_alg
encrypted_request_object_alg
encrypted_request_object_enc

following the same pattern for the ID Token and UserInfo JWS/JWE
parameters:

id_token_signed_response_alg
id_token_encrypted_response_alg
id_token_encrypted_response_enc

userinfo_signed_response_alg
userinfo_encrypted_response_alg
userinfo_encrypted_response_enc


(I suppose the *_int is going to go away to match the latest JOSE changes).


Thanks,

Vladimir

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