Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                          M. Jones
Request for Comments: 7638                                     Microsoft
Category: Standards Track                                    N. Sakimura
ISSN: 2070-1721                                Nomura Research Institute
                                                         September 2015


                    JSON Web Key (JWK) Thumbprint

Abstract

  This specification defines a method for computing a hash value over a
  JSON Web Key (JWK).  It defines which fields in a JWK are used in the
  hash computation, the method of creating a canonical form for those
  fields, and how to convert the resulting Unicode string into a byte
  sequence to be hashed.  The resulting hash value can be used for
  identifying or selecting the key represented by the JWK that is the
  subject of the thumbprint.

Status of This Memo

  This is an Internet Standards Track document.

  This document is a product of the Internet Engineering Task Force
  (IETF).  It represents the consensus of the IETF community.  It has
  received public review and has been approved for publication by the
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  Internet Standards is available in Section 2 of RFC 5741.

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Table of Contents

  1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
    1.1.  Notational Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
  2.  Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
  3.  JSON Web Key (JWK) Thumbprint . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
    3.1.  Example JWK Thumbprint Computation  . . . . . . . . . . .   4
    3.2.  JWK Members Used in the Thumbprint Computation  . . . . .   6
      3.2.1.  JWK Thumbprint of a Private Key . . . . . . . . . . .   6
      3.2.2.  Why Not Include Optional Members? . . . . . . . . . .   7
    3.3.  Order and Representation of Members in Hash Input . . . .   7
    3.4.  Selection of Hash Function  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
    3.5.  JWK Thumbprints of Keys Not in JWK Format . . . . . . . .   8
  4.  Practical JSON and Unicode Considerations . . . . . . . . . .   8
  5.  Relationship to Digests of X.509 Values . . . . . . . . . . .   9
  6.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
  7.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
  8.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
    8.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
    8.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
  Acknowledgements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
  Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13

1.  Introduction

  This specification defines a method for computing a hash value
  (a.k.a. digest) over a JSON Web Key (JWK) [JWK].  It defines which
  fields in a JWK are used in the hash computation, the method of
  creating a canonical form for those fields, and how to convert the
  resulting Unicode string into a byte sequence to be hashed.  The
  resulting hash value can be used for identifying or selecting the key
  represented by the JWK that is the subject of the thumbprint, for
  instance, by using the base64url-encoded JWK Thumbprint value as a
  "kid" (key ID) value.

1.1.  Notational Conventions

  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
  "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
  "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels" [RFC2119].
  The interpretation should only be applied when the terms appear in
  all capital letters.








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2.  Terminology

  This specification uses the same terminology as the "JSON Web Key
  (JWK)" [JWK], "JSON Web Signature (JWS)" [JWS], and "JSON Web
  Algorithms (JWA)" [JWA] specifications.

  This term is defined by this specification:

  JWK Thumbprint
     The digest value for a JWK.

3.  JSON Web Key (JWK) Thumbprint

  The thumbprint of a JSON Web Key (JWK) is computed as follows:

  1.  Construct a JSON object [RFC7159] containing only the required
      members of a JWK representing the key and with no whitespace or
      line breaks before or after any syntactic elements and with the
      required members ordered lexicographically by the Unicode
      [UNICODE] code points of the member names.  (This JSON object is
      itself a legal JWK representation of the key.)

  2.  Hash the octets of the UTF-8 representation of this JSON object
      with a cryptographic hash function H.  For example, SHA-256 [SHS]
      might be used as H.  See Section 3.4 for a discussion on the
      choice of hash function.

  The resulting value is the JWK Thumbprint with H of the JWK.  The
  details of this computation are further described in subsequent
  sections.





















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3.1.  Example JWK Thumbprint Computation

  This section demonstrates the JWK Thumbprint computation for the JWK
  below (with the long line broken for display purposes only):

    {
     "kty": "RSA",
     "n": "0vx7agoebGcQSuuPiLJXZptN9nndrQmbXEps2aiAFbWhM78LhWx4cbbfAAt
           VT86zwu1RK7aPFFxuhDR1L6tSoc_BJECPebWKRXjBZCiFV4n3oknjhMstn6
           4tZ_2W-5JsGY4Hc5n9yBXArwl93lqt7_RN5w6Cf0h4QyQ5v-65YGjQR0_FD
           W2QvzqY368QQMicAtaSqzs8KJZgnYb9c7d0zgdAZHzu6qMQvRL5hajrn1n9
           1CbOpbISD08qNLyrdkt-bFTWhAI4vMQFh6WeZu0fM4lFd2NcRwr3XPksINH
           aQ-G_xBniIqbw0Ls1jF44-csFCur-kEgU8awapJzKnqDKgw",
     "e": "AQAB",
     "alg": "RS256",
     "kid": "2011-04-29"
    }

  As defined in "JSON Web Key (JWK)" [JWK] and "JSON Web Algorithms
  (JWA)" [JWA], the required members for an RSA public key are:

  o  "kty"
  o  "n"
  o  "e"

  Therefore, these are the members used in the thumbprint computation.

  Their lexicographic order, per Section 3.3, is:

  o  "e"
  o  "kty"
  o  "n"

  Therefore, the JSON object constructed as an intermediate step in the
  computation is as follows (with the line broken for display purposes
  only):

    {"e":"AQAB","kty":"RSA","n":"0vx7agoebGcQSuuPiLJXZptN9nndrQmbXEps2
    aiAFbWhM78LhWx4cbbfAAtVT86zwu1RK7aPFFxuhDR1L6tSoc_BJECPebWKRXjBZCi
    FV4n3oknjhMstn64tZ_2W-5JsGY4Hc5n9yBXArwl93lqt7_RN5w6Cf0h4QyQ5v-65Y
    GjQR0_FDW2QvzqY368QQMicAtaSqzs8KJZgnYb9c7d0zgdAZHzu6qMQvRL5hajrn1n
    91CbOpbISD08qNLyrdkt-bFTWhAI4vMQFh6WeZu0fM4lFd2NcRwr3XPksINHaQ-G_x
    BniIqbw0Ls1jF44-csFCur-kEgU8awapJzKnqDKgw"}








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  The octets of the UTF-8 representation of this JSON object are:

  [123, 34, 101, 34, 58, 34, 65, 81, 65, 66, 34, 44, 34, 107, 116, 121,
  34, 58, 34, 82, 83, 65, 34, 44, 34, 110, 34, 58, 34, 48, 118, 120,
  55, 97, 103, 111, 101, 98, 71, 99, 81, 83, 117, 117, 80, 105, 76, 74,
  88, 90, 112, 116, 78, 57, 110, 110, 100, 114, 81, 109, 98, 88, 69,
  112, 115, 50, 97, 105, 65, 70, 98, 87, 104, 77, 55, 56, 76, 104, 87,
  120, 52, 99, 98, 98, 102, 65, 65, 116, 86, 84, 56, 54, 122, 119, 117,
  49, 82, 75, 55, 97, 80, 70, 70, 120, 117, 104, 68, 82, 49, 76, 54,
  116, 83, 111, 99, 95, 66, 74, 69, 67, 80, 101, 98, 87, 75, 82, 88,
  106, 66, 90, 67, 105, 70, 86, 52, 110, 51, 111, 107, 110, 106, 104,
  77, 115, 116, 110, 54, 52, 116, 90, 95, 50, 87, 45, 53, 74, 115, 71,
  89, 52, 72, 99, 53, 110, 57, 121, 66, 88, 65, 114, 119, 108, 57, 51,
  108, 113, 116, 55, 95, 82, 78, 53, 119, 54, 67, 102, 48, 104, 52, 81,
  121, 81, 53, 118, 45, 54, 53, 89, 71, 106, 81, 82, 48, 95, 70, 68,
  87, 50, 81, 118, 122, 113, 89, 51, 54, 56, 81, 81, 77, 105, 99, 65,
  116, 97, 83, 113, 122, 115, 56, 75, 74, 90, 103, 110, 89, 98, 57, 99,
  55, 100, 48, 122, 103, 100, 65, 90, 72, 122, 117, 54, 113, 77, 81,
  118, 82, 76, 53, 104, 97, 106, 114, 110, 49, 110, 57, 49, 67, 98, 79,
  112, 98, 73, 83, 68, 48, 56, 113, 78, 76, 121, 114, 100, 107, 116,
  45, 98, 70, 84, 87, 104, 65, 73, 52, 118, 77, 81, 70, 104, 54, 87,
  101, 90, 117, 48, 102, 77, 52, 108, 70, 100, 50, 78, 99, 82, 119,
  114, 51, 88, 80, 107, 115, 73, 78, 72, 97, 81, 45, 71, 95, 120, 66,
  110, 105, 73, 113, 98, 119, 48, 76, 115, 49, 106, 70, 52, 52, 45, 99,
  115, 70, 67, 117, 114, 45, 107, 69, 103, 85, 56, 97, 119, 97, 112,
  74, 122, 75, 110, 113, 68, 75, 103, 119, 34, 125]

  Using SHA-256 [SHS] as the hash function H, the JWK SHA-256
  Thumbprint value is the SHA-256 hash of these octets, specifically:

  [55, 54, 203, 177, 120, 124, 184, 48, 156, 119, 238, 140, 55, 5, 197,
  225, 111, 251, 158, 133, 151, 21, 144, 31, 30, 76, 89, 177, 17, 130,
  245, 123]

  The base64url encoding [JWS] of this JWK SHA-256 Thumbprint value
  (which might, for instance, be used as a "kid" (key ID) value) is:

    NzbLsXh8uDCcd-6MNwXF4W_7noWXFZAfHkxZsRGC9Xs













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3.2.  JWK Members Used in the Thumbprint Computation

  Only the required members of a key's representation are used when
  computing its JWK Thumbprint value.  As defined in "JSON Web Key
  (JWK)" [JWK] and "JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)" [JWA], the required
  members for an elliptic curve public key for the curves specified in
  Section 6.2.1.1 of RFC 7518 [JWA], in lexicographic order, are:

  o  "crv"
  o  "kty"
  o  "x"
  o  "y"

  The required members for an RSA public key, in lexicographic order,
  are:

  o  "e"
  o  "kty"
  o  "n"

  The required members for a symmetric key, in lexicographic order,
  are:

  o  "k"
  o  "kty"

  As other "kty" (key type) values are defined, the specifications
  defining them should be similarly consulted to determine which
  members, in addition to "kty", are required.

3.2.1.  JWK Thumbprint of a Private Key

  The JWK Thumbprint of a JWK representing a private key is computed as
  the JWK Thumbprint of a JWK representing the corresponding public
  key.  This has the intentional benefit that the same JWK Thumbprint
  value can be computed both by parties using either the public or
  private key.  The JWK Thumbprint can then be used to refer to both
  keys of the key pair.  Application context can be used to determine
  if the public or private key is the one being referred to by the JWK
  Thumbprint.

  This specification defines the method of computing JWK Thumbprints of
  JWKs representing private keys for interoperability reasons -- so
  that different implementations computing JWK Thumbprints of private
  keys will produce the same result.






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3.2.2.  Why Not Include Optional Members?

  Optional members of JWKs are intentionally not included in the JWK
  Thumbprint computation so that their absence or presence in the JWK
  does not alter the resulting value.  The JWK Thumbprint value is a
  digest of the members required to represent the key as a JWK -- not
  of additional data that may also accompany the key.

  Optional members are not included so that the JWK Thumbprint refers
  to a key -- not a key with an associated set of key attributes.
  Different application contexts might or might not include different
  subsets of optional attributes about the key in the JWK.  If these
  were included in the calculation of the JWK thumbprint, the values
  would be different for those JWKs, even though the keys are the same.
  The benefit of including only the JWK required members is that the
  JWK Thumbprint of any JWK representing the key remains the same,
  regardless of any other attributes that are present.

  Different kinds of thumbprints could be defined by other
  specifications that might include some or all additional JWK members,
  if use cases arise where such different kinds of thumbprints would be
  useful.  See Section 9.1 of RFC 7517 [JWK] for notes on some ways to
  cryptographically bind attributes to a key.

3.3.  Order and Representation of Members in Hash Input

  The required members in the input to the hash function are ordered
  lexicographically by the Unicode code points of the member names.

  Characters in member names and member values MUST be represented
  without being escaped.  This means that thumbprints of JWKs that
  require such characters are not defined by this specification.  (This
  is not expected to limit the applicability of this specification, in
  practice, as the members of JWK representations are not expected to
  use any of these characters.)  The characters specified as requiring
  escaping by Section 7 of [RFC7159] are quotation mark, reverse
  solidus (a.k.a. backslash), and the control characters U+0000 through
  U+001F.

  If the JWK key type uses members whose values are themselves JSON
  objects, then the members of those objects MUST likewise be
  lexicographically ordered.  (As of the time of this writing, none are
  defined that do.)

  If the JWK key type uses members whose values are JSON numbers, and
  if those numbers are integers, then they MUST be represented as a
  JSON number as defined in Section 6 of [RFC7159] without including a
  fraction part or exponent part.  For instance, the value "1.024e3"



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  MUST be represented as "1024".  This means that thumbprints of JWKs
  using numbers that are not integers are not defined by this
  specification.  Also, as noted in "The I-JSON Message Format"
  [RFC7493], implementations cannot expect an integer whose absolute
  value is greater than 9007199254740991 (i.e., that is outside the
  range [-(2**53)+1, (2**53)-1]) to be treated as an exact value.  (As
  of the time of this writing, none are defined that use JSON numbers.)

  See Section 4 for a discussion of further practical considerations
  pertaining to the representation of the hash input.

3.4.  Selection of Hash Function

  A specific hash function must be chosen by an application to compute
  the hash value of the hash input.  For example, SHA-256 [SHS] might
  be used as the hash function by the application.  While SHA-256 is a
  good default choice at the time of this writing, the hash function of
  choice can be expected to change over time as the cryptographic
  landscape evolves.

  Note that in many cases, only the party that creates a key will need
  to know the hash function used.  A typical usage is for the producer
  of the key to use the base64url-encoded JWK Thumbprint value as a
  "kid" (key ID) value.  In this case, the consumer of the "kid" treats
  it as an opaque value that it uses to select the key.

  However, in some cases, multiple parties will be reproducing the JWK
  Thumbprint calculation and comparing the results.  In these cases,
  the parties will need to know which hash function was used and use
  the same one.

3.5.  JWK Thumbprints of Keys Not in JWK Format

  Note that a key need not be in JWK format to create a JWK Thumbprint
  of it.  The only prerequisites are that the JWK representation of the
  key be defined and the party creating the JWK Thumbprint be in
  possession of the necessary key material.  These are sufficient to
  create the hash input from the JWK representation of the key, as
  described in Section 3.3.

4.  Practical JSON and Unicode Considerations

  Implementations will almost certainly use functionality provided by
  the platform's JSON support when parsing the JWK and emitting the
  JSON object used as the hash input.  As a practical consideration,
  future JWK member names and values should be avoided for which
  different platforms or libraries might emit different
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  member names and values use only printable ASCII characters, which
  should not exhibit this problem.  Note however, that JSON.stringify()
  cannot be counted on to lexicographically sort the members of JSON
  objects, so while it could be used to emit some kinds of member
  values, different code is likely to be needed to perform the sorting.

  In particular, while the operation of lexicographically ordering
  member names by their Unicode code points is well defined, different
  platform sort functions may produce different results for non-ASCII
  characters, in ways that may not be obvious to developers.  If
  writers of future specifications defining new JWK key type values
  choose to restrict themselves to printable ASCII member names and
  values (which are for machine and not human consumption anyway), some
  future interoperability problems might be avoided.

  However, if new JWK members are defined that use non-ASCII member
  names or values, their definitions should specify the exact Unicode
  code point sequences used to represent them.  This is particularly
  important in cases in which Unicode normalization could result in the
  transformation of one set of code points into another under any
  circumstances.

  Use of escaped characters in JWKs for which JWK Thumbprints will be
  computed should be avoided.  Use of escaped characters in the hash
  input JWKs derived from these original JWKs is prohibited.

  There is a natural representation to use for numeric values that are
  integers.  However, this specification does not attempt to define a
  standard representation for numbers that are not integers or that
  contain an exponent component.  This is not expected to be a problem
  in practice, as the required members of JWK representations are
  expected to use only numbers that are integers.

  Use of number representations containing fraction or exponent parts
  in JWKs for which JWK Thumbprints will be computed should be avoided.

  All of these practical considerations are really an instance of Jon
  Postel's principle: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative
  in what you send."

5.  Relationship to Digests of X.509 Values

  JWK Thumbprint values are computed on the JWK members required to
  represent a key, rather than all members of a JWK that the key is
  represented in.  Thus, they are more analogous to applications that
  use digests of X.509 Subject Public Key Info (SPKI) values, which are
  defined in Section 4.1.2.7 of [RFC5280], than to applications that
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  certificate SHA-1 thumbprint) [JWS] value defined for X.509
  certificate objects does.  While logically equivalent to a digest of
  the SPKI representation of the key, a JWK Thumbprint is computed over
  a JSON representation of that key, rather than over an ASN.1
  representation of it.

6.  IANA Considerations

  This specification adds to the instructions for the Designated
  Experts of the following IANA registries, all of which are in the
  "JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)" registry [IANA.JOSE]:

  o  JSON Web Key Types
  o  JSON Web Key Elliptic Curve
  o  JSON Web Key Parameters

  IANA has added a link to this specification in the Reference sections
  of these registries.

  For these registries, because of the practical JSON and Unicode
  considerations described in Section 4, the Designated Experts must
  either:

  (a) require that JWK member names and values being registered use
  only printable ASCII characters excluding double quote ('"') and
  backslash ('\') (the Unicode characters with code points U+0021,
  U+0023 through U+005B, and U+005D through U+007E), or

  (b) if new JWK members or values are defined that use other code
  points, require that their definitions specify the exact Unicode code
  point sequences used to represent them.  Furthermore, proposed
  registrations that use Unicode code points that can only be
  represented in JSON strings as escaped characters must not be
  accepted.

7.  Security Considerations

  The JSON Security Considerations and Unicode Comparison Security
  Considerations described in Sections 10.12 and 10.13 of "JSON Web
  Signature (JWS)" [JWS] also apply to this specification.

  Also, as described in Section 4, some implementations may produce
  incorrect results if esoteric or escaped characters are used in the
  member names.  The security implications of this appear to be limited
  for JWK Thumbprints of public keys, because while it may result in
  implementations failing to identify the intended key, it should not
  leak information.  The information in a public key is already public
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  A hash of a symmetric key has the potential to leak information about
  the key value.  Thus, the JWK Thumbprint of a symmetric key should
  typically be concealed from parties not in possession of the
  symmetric key, unless in the application context, the cryptographic
  hash used, such as SHA-256, is known to provide sufficient protection
  against disclosure of the key value.

  A JWK Thumbprint will only uniquely identify a particular key if a
  single unambiguous JWK representation for that key is defined and
  used when computing the JWK Thumbprint.  (Such representations are
  defined for all the key types defined in "JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)"
  [JWA].)  For example, if an RSA key were to use "e":"AAEAAQ"
  (representing [0, 1, 0, 1]) rather than the specified correct
  representation of "e":"AQAB" (representing [1, 0, 1]), then a
  different thumbprint value would be produced for what could be
  effectively the same key, at least for implementations that are lax
  in validating the JWK values that they accept.  Thus, JWK Thumbprint
  values can only be relied upon to be unique for a given key if the
  implementation also validates that the correct representation of the
  key is used.

  Even more insidious is that an attacker may supply a key that is a
  transformation of a legal key in order to have it appear to be a
  different key.  For instance, if a legitimate RSA key uses a modulus
  value N and an attacker supplies a key with modulus 3*N, the modified
  key would still work about 1/3 of the time, but would appear to be a
  different key.  Thus, while thumbprint values are valuable for
  identifying legitimate keys, comparing thumbprint values is not a
  reliable means of excluding (blacklisting) the use of particular keys
  (or transformations thereof).

8.  References

8.1.  Normative References

  [IANA.JOSE] IANA, "JSON Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE)",
              <http://www.iana.org/assignments/jose>.

  [JWA]       Jones, M., "JSON Web Algorithms (JWA)", RFC 7518,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7518, May 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7518>.

  [JWK]       Jones, M., "JSON Web Key (JWK)", RFC 7517,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7517, May 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7517>.






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  [JWS]       Jones, M., Bradley, J., and N. Sakimura, "JSON Web
              Signature (JWS)", RFC 7515, DOI 10.17487/RFC7515, May
              2015, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7515>.

  [RFC2119]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

  [RFC7159]   Bray, T., Ed., "The JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)
              Data Interchange Format", RFC 7159, DOI 10.17487/RFC7159,
              March 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7159>.

  [SHS]       National Institute of Standards and Technology, "Secure
              Hash Standard (SHS)", FIPS PUB 180-4, March 2012,
              <http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/fips/fips180-4/
              fips-180-4.pdf>.

  [UNICODE]   The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard",
              <http://www.unicode.org/versions/latest/>.

8.2.  Informative References

  [RFC5280]   Cooper, D., Santesson, S., Farrell, S., Boeyen, S.,
              Housley, R., and W. Polk, "Internet X.509 Public Key
              Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation
              List (CRL) Profile", RFC 5280, DOI 10.17487/RFC5280, May
              2008, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5280>.

  [RFC7493]   Bray, T., Ed., "The I-JSON Message Format", RFC 7493,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7493, March 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7493>.



















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Acknowledgements

  James Manger and John Bradley participated in discussions that led to
  the creation of this specification.  Thanks also to Joel Halpern,
  Barry Leiba, Adam Montville, Kathleen Moriarty, and Jim Schaad for
  their reviews of this specification.

Authors' Addresses

  Michael B. Jones
  Microsoft

  Email: [email protected]
  URI:   http://self-issued.info/


  Nat Sakimura
  Nomura Research Institute

  Email: [email protected]
  URI:   http://nat.sakimura.org/






























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