Re: [TLS] Ecdsa-sig-value in TLS 1.3 – need for erratum?

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 01 October 2019 22:15 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> writes:

>a lax DER parser sounds like an oxymoron to me... :)

That's why I assumed it was an accident/error.  Writing a spec that relies on
buggy parser implementations in order to work is asking for trouble.

Peter.