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Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:45AM (#13867035)
I agree on all the accounts on what you said. I am probably biased by the fact I like JSON over XML. Probably JOSE just took the wrong path and could have been designed way better than it is...
Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:35AM (#13866956)
It seems that Matthew Green warned them about some of their choices though back in 2012!! https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/jose/current/msg00366....
Re:JSON Web Tokens should be avoided on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:24AM (#13866892)
The author of http://blog.intothesymmetry.com/2017/03/critical-vulnerabili... here FWIW. Personally I would not be so drastic. JOSE per se is not too bad (at least the idea is cool). Some crypto choices though have been really arguable...
indeed. but there is always Static DH :) even if not so popular...
hi the author of the vuln here. this is my write up http://intothesymmetry.blogspot.ch/2016/01/openssl-key-recov...
Re:Are your GitHub's data safe? on Thursday August 14, 2014 @09:23AM (#8177278)
I hope Firefox will also implement nosniff