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Re: [TLS] Simplifying signature algorithm negotiation

David Benjamin <davidben@chromium.org> Sat, 16 January 2016 01:26 UTC

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From: David Benjamin <davidben@chromium.org>
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2016 01:26:04 +0000
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Simplifying signature algorithm negotiation
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On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:10 PM David Benjamin <davidben@chromium.org>
wrote:

> If changing the existing meaning is a nuisance, another option is to
> continue to allocate new values but only define ecdsa_p256_sha256,
> ecdsa_p384_sha384, and ecdsa_p521_sha512 (or whatever your favorite subset
> is) for TLS 1.3 and later.
>

(Hrm. Nevermind, actually. If we go with only those three, I don't think
this option does anything useful. If we go with a superset, we might want
it separate? Would have to think about that to convince myself. Anyway,
whether/how to subset is the more important question. Overlap's mostly an
optimization.)

David

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