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John Bradley and I convened a session on Trust Establishment with OpenID Federation at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) on Thursday, April 18, 2024. The material used to drive the discussion was: Trust Establishment with OpenID Federation (PowerPoint) (PDF) The session was well attended and the discussion lively. Numerous people with trust establishment problems to […]

As has become traditional, I gave the following presentation at the Monday, April 15, 2024 OpenID Workshop at Google: OpenID Connect Working Group Update (PowerPoint) (PDF) I also gave this invited “101” session presentation at the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW) on Tuesday, April 16, 2024: Introduction to OpenID Connect (PowerPoint) (PDF)

I gave a presentation on Fully-Specified Algorithms for JOSE and COSE at the 2024 OAuth Security Workshop in Rome. The slides used to update participants on the progress of the work are available as PowerPoint and PDF. Thanks to the organizers for another great OAuth Security Workshop! And special thanks to the colleagues from Fondazione […]

I’m pleased to report that the COSE “typ” (type) Header Parameter Specification has been approved by the IESG and is now in the RFC Editor queue. The version approved by the IESG and sent to the RFC Editor is: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-cose-typ-header-parameter-05.html It joins CBOR Web Token (CWT) Claims in COSE Headers in the RFC Editor queue. […]

My co-authors and I published updated versions of eight specifications in preparation for IETF 119 in Brisbane. The specifications span three working groups: JOSE, COSE, and OAuth. The updated specifications and outcomes when discussed at IETF 119 are as follows. 1, 2, & 3: JSON Web Proof, JSON Proof Algorithms, and JSON Proof Token. Updates […]

Orie Steele and I have updated the COSE “typ” (type) Header Parameter Specification to address feedback received during IETF Last Call. No normative changes were made. Thanks to those that reviewed the specification! The specification is available at: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-cose-typ-header-parameter-03.html Besides the spec being useful on its own, it’s worth noting that the CBOR Web Token […]

OpenID Federation draft 33 has been published at https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0-33.html and https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0.html. The working group continues refining the specification to make it more consistent and easier to read and implement. We published draft 33 now to get these improvements out to implementers. Per the history entries at https://openid.net/specs/openid-federation-1_0-33.html#name-document-history, a summary of changes made in -32 and […]

The OpenID Federation editors were invited to give a presentation on OpenID Federation at the 18th FIM4R Workshop, which was held at the 2024 TIIME Unconference. Giuseppe De Marco, Roland Hedberg, John Bradley, and I tag-teamed the presentation, with Vladimir Dzhuvinov also participating in the Q&A. Topics covered included motivations, architecture, design decisions, capabilities, use […]

The “Fully-Specified Algorithms for JOSE and COSE” specification has been adopted by the JOSE working group. See my original post about the spec for why fully-specified algorithms matter. Thanks to all who supported adoption and also thanks to those who provided useful detailed feedback that we can address in future working group drafts. The specification […]

Aaron Parecki and I have published a draft of the “OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata” specification that addresses all the issues that we’re aware of. In particular, the updates address the comments received during the discussions at IETF 118. As described in the History entry for -02, the changes were: Switched from concatenating .well-known to […]

We held the first of three planned tenth anniversary celebrations for the completion of OpenID Connect at the OpenID Summit Tokyo 2024. The four panelists were Nov Matake, Ryo Ito, Nat Sakimura, and myself. We shared our perspectives on what led to OpenID Connect, why it succeeded, and what lessons we learned along the way. […]

Thanks to those of you who elected me to a two-year term on the OpenID Foundation board of directors. This is an incredibly exciting time for the OpenID Foundation and for digital identity, and I’m thrilled to be able to contribute via the OpenID board. Thanks for placing your trust in me! I’d like to […]