Re: [TLS] Using RSA PSS in TLS

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Mon, 14 October 2013 12:31 UTC

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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

>[...] when signaling is through the AlgorithmIdentifier in SPKI of the entity
>certificate.

See also my earlier post about PKIX members pretty much universally rejecting
-PSS in certs.  You're not going to be able to address this issue by making it
another WG's problem.

(How many public-CA-issued -PSS certs have people seen in the wild?).

Peter.