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Re: [pkix] How to select the ASN.1 structure of EC-SDSA (Schnorr signature with ECC)?

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Tue, 23 August 2022 13:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [pkix] How to select the ASN.1 structure of EC-SDSA (Schnorr signature with ECC)?
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Ernst:

> ECSDSA-Sig-Value ::= SEQUENCE {
>       r     BIT STRING,
>       s     INTEGER }

If you are going to define a new structure, OCTET STRING seems more appropriate.  I do not think that there are any hash functions that produce results that nee BIT STRING.

Russ

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