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Re: [TLS] Using RSA PSS in TLS

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 22 January 2015 08:16 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

>Btw. TLSv1.2 explicitly requires support for a slight variation (NULL and
>absent parameters) on the TLSv1.2 RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 digitally-signed signature
>verification, see rfc5246, section 4.7 3rd paragraph:

That looks like another one of those bits of TLS 1.2 that implementers have to
know to ignore...

Peter.

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