Max Pritikin (pritikin) <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Dec 11, 2018, at 3:23 PM, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> 
> > wrote:
> >
> >
> > Panos Kampanakis (pkampana) <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I was assuming it was mandatory in the current draft, but I was wrong. As
> >> you suggest it is not clear in the -17 version. I do think that an unsigned
> >> voucher should make it to the MASA, like a signed one would, for
> >> consistency.
> >
> > okay, I'm glad that we agree that it should be consistent.
> >
> > I'm not convinced it's worth having unsigned pledge requests at all.
>
> Sadly I think we still have to respect folks that are worried about the
> extra crypto operations on the pledge. Particularly given the
> size/complexity of a CMS signature. IF we’d gone with a jwt/cwt signature
> I’d be more open to “just sign everything”.

Okay, but constrained vouchers signed with COSE?
We weren't sure we'd have that when we did the unsigned pledge request.

> I respect the desire to forward the unsigned request “for consistency” but
> disagree. My reasoning is that the unsigned request is *not signed* and
> therefore can NOT provide any value to the MASA. As such including it in
> the messages is simply additional overhead and opportunity for a MASA to
> mess up and, for example, use the nonce from it even if the Registrar
> doesn’t want a nonce (or other weird bugs that would be difficult to notice
> until they were a pain).

I definitely see your point.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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