[Openid-specs-ab] Issue #2077: Trust chain diagram in backwards order (openid/connect)

Giuseppe De Marco demarcog83 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 29 23:47:45 UTC 2023


That's exactly what raised within the issue and brought in a PR that adds
guidance to the readers, here:
https://bitbucket.org/openid/connect/pull-requests/656

Il giorno dom 29 ott 2023 alle ore 23:54 Tom Jones via Openid-specs-ab <
openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net> ha scritto:

> Interesting thought.
> I always thought that the trust flows down from the anchor to the leaf,
> that seems to be what "trust chain" says.
> Of course the actual search starts at the leaf and goes back to the anchor.
> Depends on your pov.
> ..tom
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 29, 2023 at 12:13 PM mbj via Openid-specs-ab <
> openid-specs-ab at lists.openid.net> wrote:
>
>> New issue 2077: Trust chain diagram in backwards order
>>
>> https://bitbucket.org/openid/connect/issues/2077/trust-chain-diagram-in-backwards-order
>>
>> Michael Jones:
>>
>> I hate to say it, but the trust chain diagram in [
>> https://openid.bitbucket.io/connect/openid-federation-1\_0.html#name-trust-chain](https://openid.bitbucket.io/connect/openid-federation-1_0.html#name-trust-chain)
>> \(Figure 5\) will confuse some people because it starts from the Trust
>> Anchor and finishes with the Leaf, whereas actual trust chains are in the
>> opposite order.  I know that this will be a pain to do, but we should
>> reverse this diagram to put it in the actual order.
>>
>> And we should do the same for any other diagrams that are also in the
>> wrong order.
>>
>> Responsible: Giuseppe De Marco
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