[saag] RSA-PSS

Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi> Thu, 05 December 2013 11:16 UTC

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:16:00 +0200
From: Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
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Russ Housley writes:
> We have seen very little movement toward RSA-PSS.  While we are
> reviewing algorithm choices in light of the pervasive surveillance
> situation, I think we should take the time to consider improvements
> in our algorithm choices. 

In the IPsecME WG we have draft-kivinen-ipsecme-signature-auth
document which allows also using the RSASSA-PSS in addition to the
RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 in the IKEv2. Unfortunately I have not received that
many reviews on the document, especially for the RSASSA-PSS parts.

The RSASSA-PSS is quite a lot more complex than RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5,
especially with all the ASN.1 in the parameters etc, and I am not sure
if the text I have written about it is correct. It would be useful if
someone who is really familiar with RSASSA-PSS would review the
draft...
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