Dear all

During SEC-DIR review, Benjamin pointed out:


> Why do we need to allow ambiguity/flexibility as to the point representation

> within a given Crypto-Type value (as opposed to fixing the representation as a

> parameter of the Crypto-Type)?  Alternately, what does "(un)compressed"

> mean, as it's not really clarified directly?  Furthermore, Table 2 lists an

> "(un)compressed" representation for type 0 (over P-256), but RFC 7518 notes

> that the compressed representation is not supported for P-256 (Section

> 6.2.1.1).  I also am not finding the needed codepoints registered in the JOSE

> registries to use ECDSA25519 (crypto-type 2) -- do we need to register

> anything there?


Any idea how we can address this?
In particular does anyone know why RFC 7518 does not support the compressed 
representation for P-256? Cc'ing LAKE on the impact of this


Pascal

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