Re: [jose] POLL(s): header criticality

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Mon, 11 February 2013 15:56 UTC

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On 2/7/13 9:05 PM, Mike Jones wrote:
> I agree that this should be described in the document.
> One common application that uses discovery/negotiation to decide what 
> algorithms are supported and to use is TLS (https).
> Cheers,
> -- Mike
>
That's not quite accurate. TLS specifies mandatory to implement algs. 
Clients and servers can
use the handshake to discover/negotiate algs, but they always know that 
the mandatory to implement
algs are available.

Steve