[Trans] duplicate 0x0403 in signature scheme registry

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sun, 28 March 2021 20:23 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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>Section 10.3
>
>I'm confused by this registry.  Is the SignatureScheme value required to
>come from/match the TLS SignatureScheme registry?  Is anything going to
>key off that value or otherwise use the value in a protocol data
>structure?  (Why are there two entries for 0x0403?)

The duplicate 0x0403 seems a bug. Any implementor care to clarify?

As for why this registry, I assume it’s to be a subset of the TLS registry “just because”  Are there any other reasons?