Hi,

https://github.com/cose-wg/X509/pull/35

There are three remaining discussions related to the PR that has to be 
concluded before merging the PR.

- Two of the discussion are more editorial comments from Ben.

- The third discussion is in my understanding more high-level and depend on 
what COSE can require/expect/get information about from the CA(s). It also 
depends on how much COSE should protect people from shooting themselves in the 
foot. 

The current text is 

"Unless it is known that the CA required proof-of-possession of the subject's 
private key to issue an end-entity certificate, the end-entity certificate MUST 
be integrity protected by COSE."

Laurance commented that this is not enough and that the endpoints should agree 
on which end-entity certificate is used. CAs may issue several certificates 
with the same public key, and different CAs may issue several certificates with 
the same public key.

Michael commented that this is overkill. There is also a discussion whether the 
requirement should be MUST or SHOULD.

At a minimum I think the draft needs security consideration that discusses that 
there might be many certificates with the same public key and unless things are 
put in the protected header, the two endpoints might have different views on 
which certificate was used.

I think this needs to be discussed on the list.

Cheers,
John



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