Hi folks,

Last weekend I submitted an Internet-Draft entitled "COSE Key and JSON Web
Key Representation for Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) of Hybrid Public
Key Encryption (HPKE)".

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ajitomi-cose-cose-key-jwk-hpke-kem/

The COSE-HPKE under discussion defines the information including an
encapsulated key sent from the sender to the recipient (HPKE sender
information), but on the other hand, the sender needs to know the recipient
public key and HPKE key configuration information (KDFs/AEADs supported by
the recipient, etc.) beforehand.

I thought this information (HPKE recipient information, so to speak) was
worth expressing in COSE_Key and JWK and I wrote this draft.

Maybe it's controversial, but this draft defines (1) a common key parameter
for defining the HPKE key configuration information in existing key types
that can be used for key derivation ("EC" and "OKP") and (2) a generic key
type for HPKE that can also be used to represent post-quantum KEMs to be
defined in the future.

I would very much appreciate your comments.

Best regards,
AJITOMI Daisuke
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