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RE: Stick with XML ... JSON is a minefield of security risks andambiguit

  • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
  • Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 19:07:18 +0000

RE: Stick with XML ... JSON is a minefield of security risks andambiguit

From Tony Arcieri:

JSON is a bit of a mess. You may have seen Parsing JSON is a Minefield recently, which did a fantastic job of illustrating that while JSON’s “simplicity is a virtue” approach led to widespread adoption, under-specification has led to a proliferation of interoperability problems and ambiguities. From a strictly software engineering perspective these ambiguities can lead to annoying bugs and reliability problems, but in a security context such as JOSE they can be fodder for attackers to exploit. It really feels like JSON could use a well-defined “strict mode”.

Introducing TJSON, a stricter, typed form of JSON

TJSON is syntax-compatible with JSON, but adds mandatory type annotations. Its primary intended use is in cryptographic authentication contexts, particularly ones where JSON is used as a human-friendly alternative representation of data in a system which otherwise works natively in a binary format.

https://tonyarcieri.com/introducing-tjson-a-stricter-typed-form-of-json

 



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