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Re: [CFRG] RSA PSS Salt Length for HTTP Message Signatures

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 28 May 2021 21:23 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu>
CC: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org>, IRTF CFRG <cfrg@irtf.org>, Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>
Thread-Topic: [CFRG] RSA PSS Salt Length for HTTP Message Signatures
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] RSA PSS Salt Length for HTTP Message Signatures
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> but something to note: We aren’t :just: defining RSA-PSS, we’re also defining a flavor of RSA 1.5, a flavor of HMAC, and a flavor of ECDSA, each with fixed parameters including sizes and curves and the like. Which means that our own version of PSS is going to be a very strict and narrow selection tied to a single identifier, and if there’s enough of a draw from any community to define another set of parameters, it can be registered with a new label. 

That makes a great deal of sense, and mitigates/removes the concerns in the link I posted.

Nice work.

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