Re: [Webpush] Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with COMMENT)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 17 August 2017 00:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Kathleen Moriarty's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-vapid-03: (with COMMENT)
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On 17 August 2017 at 01:34, Kathleen Moriarty
<kathleen.moriarty.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The text you cite is included specifically to maybe prevent someone
>> from incorrectly using the same key for signing (in -vapid) and
>> encryption (in -encryption).  Unfortunately, this specific type of
>> misuse is possible in a lot of codebases and does happen.
>
> OK, if it's possible to edit the cited text to make it more clear, I
> think that would be helpful to any implementer that comes along later.

I made a change in response to Ben's review that might help:
https://github.com/webpush-wg/webpush-vapid/pull/44/commits/3269c22c083793b52da9dff51273843e3dc0d3f7