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Re: [CFRG] compact representation and HPKE

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sat, 13 February 2021 08:46 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
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Subject: Re: [CFRG] compact representation and HPKE
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Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> writes:

>We should go with the "technically superior approach", especially when that
>results in a cleaner and more consistent API for HPKE.

If you're proposing we mandate a switch from a form that everyone uses and
everything supports to one that no-one uses and that (virtually) nothing
supports then that's not a "technically superior approach", it's "workgroup
posturing".  

For an example of where that leads, look at what happened with the S/MIME WG
and their mandating of static-ephemeral DH in place of RSA.

Peter.

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