Subject: [jose] ACME: Base64 is a deal-breaker

From: Anders Rundgren <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:56:37 +0100

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/acme/current/msg00249.html

And in this case we are talking about simple structures with a single outer signature.
If you go to schemes like payments that may require signed messages to be embedded by other signed messages you end up with really ugly stuff.

JCS doesn't appear like such a terribly bad idea anymore.   It is probably b@dder :-)

Anders