[TLS] Re: Codepoint registration for algorithms enough?

Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> Wed, 30 September 2026 17:03 UTC

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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:03:46 +0300
From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2026 at 09:20:06AM -0700, Watson Ladd wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 11:24 PM Ilari Liusvaara
> <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 02:53:57PM -0700, Watson Ladd wrote:
> > > Dear TLS WG,
> > >
> > > Is a codepoint registration all that we need for composite certs to
> > > work in TLS pointing to the doc in LAMPS? I'm trying to understand
> > > what content we would need to have here and why.
> >
> > AFAICT, other than the registration stuff, mostly just interoperability
> > and security considerations. Prominent part of security considerations
> > is downgrade attacks (to both traditional and standalone).
> 
> That doesn't seem specific to this draft but shared by any enablement
> of a new signature scheme.

Composite signatures have special considerations with downgrade attacks
(this also interacts with PKI policy), and also considerations with
interoperability.




-Ilari