Jim: PKCS#8 is a key that need to be wrapped.
I want to be able to use if for any keying material, including an HMAC key. Russ > On Jan 22, 2019, at 6:10 PM, Jim Schaad <[email protected]> wrote: > > Russ, > > That is indeed an interesting use case. Does this mean that you are really > more interested in using this as a content encryption algorithm rather than > a key encryption algorithm? I have doubts for this use case that you are > looking to wrap key and are looking to wrap content. This is different than > a use case where one wishes to use an HMAC algorithm with a key which is not > a multiple of 8 octets. > > Jim > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Russ Housley <[email protected]> >> Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 2:36 PM >> To: Jim Schaad <[email protected]> >> Cc: cose <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [COSE] Adding AES Key Wrap with Padding >> >> Jim: >> >> The use case is wrapping PKCS#8 objects, which are not necessarily a > multiple >> of 8 octets. >> >> Russ >> >> >>> On Jan 22, 2019, at 5:09 PM, Jim Schaad <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Russ, >>> >>> I will ask the same question that I asked the last time that somebody >>> requested that we support the AES Key Wrap with Padding Algorithm. >>> What is the use case that you have for this algorithm. This makes a >>> difference in terms of how things are going to be used and what other >>> things might need to be specified for this. I have to admit that I >>> would really prefer to get an AEAD version of this algorithm if we are >>> going to add something but that I probably not possible. >>> >>> Jim >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> COSE mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cose > _______________________________________________ COSE mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cose
