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Re: [COSE] tstr values for kty, alg, crv, etc.

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Mon, 09 August 2021 19:43 UTC

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Subject: Re: [COSE] tstr values for kty, alg, crv, etc.
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > This discussion is all a bit short sighted to me. Sure, we can advise
    > against registering text labels now. But COSE has a long life with many
    > applications before it, some of which may be outside what you are
    > thinking about now. What’s the rush on disabling these?

I understood that some people think that we can encode the map key for 'kty'
as both 'kty' and also 1.

(section 7 of RFC8152)
[ditto alg and I think key_ops]

I'm not convinced the document says that.

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