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Re: [TLS] PSS for TLS 1.3

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Thu, 26 March 2015 15:40 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] PSS for TLS 1.3
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Martin:

>> I have wanted to see migration of signatures on certificates from
>> PKCS#1 v1.5 to PSS for many years.  I think this is a nice step for
>> that to happen.
> 
> The major problem with RSA-PSS is not the PKCS#1 v2.1 RSA-PSS signature
> transform, but the policy crap described in rfc4055.

I do not know what you are referencing.  There are ways to limit a particular key to PSS if desired.

Russ

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