COSE WG,

I accidently sent the last email early. Please ignore it.

Kathleen provided comments below on draft-ietf-sacm-coswid suggesting that we 
use the COSE proposed algorithm identifiers for hashes in CoSWID. We are 
currently using the entries in the IANA Named Information Hash Algorithm 
Registry. It would be great to align with the COSE hash algorithms, but I can't 
figure out a way to point to only the hash algorithms in the COSE Algorithms 
registry. We can point to the draft-ietf-cose-hash-algs once its published as 
an RFC, but this would be less agile in the face of future updates to COSE hash 
algorithms. It would very useful if the COSE Algorithms registry has a column 
for algorithm type. That way we could select only the hash algorithms.

Do you have any suggestions on how we might move forward?

Regards,
Dave Waltermire

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On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 6:45 AM Kathleen Moriarty 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 
wrote:
Hi Dave,

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 3:02 AM Dave Waltermire 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Kathleen,

Thank you for the review. I have addressed your comments in the latest draft. 
Some comments on your comments are inline below.

From: sacm <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> on behalf of 
Kathleen Moriarty 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Fri, October 25, 2019 11:57 PM +0800
To: "<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [sacm] CoSWID review


Section 2.6:
A Thumbprint is specified in this section, should this be referenced for 
clarity on hashes with COSE for object identification: 
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cose-hash-algs/<https://gcc01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdatatracker.ietf.org%2Fdoc%2Fdraft-ietf-cose-hash-algs%2F&data=02%7C01%7Cdavid.waltermire%40nist.gov%7C75ba45cd96ab47c1496808d76c23fd62%7C2ab5d82fd8fa4797a93e054655c61dec%7C1%7C0%7C637096774138383674&sdata=7FGlZBW3KNZeR7ur3baxZKvGm5m8jYR%2BdQnng6L1%2Bmc%3D&reserved=0>
Would it be better to tie to the COSE set of supported algorithms (they likely 
match, but I didn't verify)?

The IANA COSE Algorithms registry contains other types of algorithms beyond 
hash algorithms. To use this registry, we would need to list the hash-specific 
algorithms, which is less ideal. Its a shame this registry isn't broken out by 
algorithm type, which would make this decision easy. With the IANA "Named 
Information Hash Algorithm Registry", we get only hash algorithms, which is 
what we are looking for. Can you live with use of the  IANA "Named Information 
Hash Algorithm Registry"?

COSE is open as is their main draft.  This is a problem that can likely be 
solved this week...  Talk to Jim. Let me and the list know what's possible.
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