[jose] Do we have actual normative text which curves are allowed / standard for ECDH-ES in JOSE?

Vladimir Dzhuvinov <vladimir@connect2id.com> Tue, 03 November 2020 21:40 UTC

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Subject: [jose] Do we have actual normative text which curves are allowed / standard for ECDH-ES in JOSE?
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Today we received the question why the Nimbus JOSE+JWT lib supports the
EC curves it does for ECDH (P-256, P-384, P-512) and I couldn't find any
normative text or reference in the JWA spec to explain this.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-4.6


We also looked at the IANA registry for hints:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/jose/jose.xhtml


Contrast this with the JWS ECDSA, where the curves to go with the ESxxx
algs are specced:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7518#section-3.4


Can someone help here? :)


Thanks,

Vladimir

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Vladimir Dzhuvinov