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

Neil Madden <neil.e.madden@gmail.com> Sat, 29 May 2021 09:14 UTC

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Subject: Re: [CFRG] RSA PSS Salt Length for HTTP Message Signatures
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On 28 May 2021, at 04:11, Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> writes:
> 
>> When I was just updating my test vector implementation I saw this as another
>> optional parameter alongside the salt length and so I was about to ask if
>> this was important to specify. I see here that it is. :)
> 
> I would recommend specifying a complete cipher suite that locks down every
> single variable parameter to a fixed value, hashes, MGFs, data block sizes,
> everything.  Without that you're always going to get some implementation that
> creates fully standards-compliant signatures that, nevertheless, nothing else
> can deal with.
> 
> Or, as I mentioned, use encode-then-memcmp() PKCS #1, since there's nothing to
> get wrong in there.

By this do you mean *constant-time* memcmp? Otherwise that seems something quite easy to get wrong. 

— Neil

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