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deprecate "alg" field to avoid security vulnerabilities #6

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EyMaddis opened this issue Jan 4, 2017 · 0 comments
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deprecate "alg" field to avoid security vulnerabilities #6

EyMaddis opened this issue Jan 4, 2017 · 0 comments

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EyMaddis commented Jan 4, 2017

Some other libraries are/were vulnerable to the following:
https://auth0.com/blog/critical-vulnerabilities-in-json-web-token-libraries/

Right now only HMAC algorithms are supported, but RSA based algorithms are on the horizon (see #4).
I would suggest updating the library to deprecate alg as suggested by Auth0 (see article above)
@EyMaddis EyMaddis changed the title deprecate "alg" field deprecate "alg" field to avoid security vulnerabilities Jan 4, 2017
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