Re: [TLS] PSS and 1.2

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 24 July 2016 09:56 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2016 11:56:13 +0200
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Subject: Re: [TLS] PSS and 1.2
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I am in favor of this change. We should be trying to move to PSS in general
and there's no reason why 1.3 clients which support PSS can't also support
it for 1.2

-Ekr


On Sun, Jul 24, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> David Benjamin noted that we really need to decide whether PSS was
> something that we should have supported in TLS 1.2.  We can't have a
> situation where there are two implementations of 1.3 that for some
> reason have 1.3 disabled where they disagree whether PSS is
> acceptable.
>
> I have opened a PR that makes it clear that PSS is defined for TLS 1.2.
>
> https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/557
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