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Thoughts about Digital Signatures for the Open Web Authentication (OAuth) Protocol
draft-tschofenig-oauth-signature-thoughts-00

Document Type Expired Internet-Draft (individual)
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Authors Hannes Tschofenig , Blaine Cook
Last updated 2010-10-18
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Abstract

The initial version of the Open Web Authentication Protocol (OAuth 1.0), often referred to as the community addition, included an mechanism for putting a digital signature (when using asymmetric keys) or a keyed message digest (when using symmetric keys) to a resource request when presenting the OAuth token. This cryptographic mechanism has lead to lots of discussions, particularly about the problems implementers had, the use cases it supports, and the benefit-cost tradeoff. This document tries to describe the use of the so-called 'OAuth Signature' mechamism in an unbiased and less emotional way with the main purpose to conclude the discussions.

Authors

Hannes Tschofenig
Blaine Cook

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