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| author | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2020-01-19 21:18:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Christian Grothoff <christian@grothoff.org> | 2020-01-19 21:18:03 +0100 |
| commit | c48e4a8a06f5554ff484f1a60c8e5673e70a897a (patch) | |
| tree | c1a044a461300beaf967e3f5abe098d431a38e7c /src/include | |
| parent | 84fd3013138db335d34fb734608b43fe2b85641e (diff) | |
comment on JSON canonicalization
Diffstat (limited to 'src/include')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/include/taler_json_lib.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/include/taler_json_lib.h b/src/include/taler_json_lib.h index be98f2a7..d5f6b0ba 100644 --- a/src/include/taler_json_lib.h +++ b/src/include/taler_json_lib.h @@ -107,6 +107,12 @@ TALER_JSON_spec_denomination_signature (const char *field, /** * Hash a JSON for binary signing. * + * See https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rundgren-json-canonicalization-scheme-15 + * for fun JSON canonicalization problems. Callers must ensure that + * those are avoided in the input. We will use libjanson's "JSON_COMPACT" + * encoding for whitespace and "JSON_SORT_KEYS" to canonicalize as best + * as we can. + * * @param[in] json some JSON value to hash * @param[out] hc resulting hash code * @return #GNUNET_OK on success, #GNUNET_SYSERR on error |