lgl island-resort.com <[email protected]> wrote: > The short version is that I *strongly* prefer a single “alg” integer to > further parameterise the key usage space. The use of a construction > like “hkc” is almost certain to complicate interoperability and > testing. Large-scale systems may be able to support many options, but > constrained systems rarely have that luxury. While configuration or > profile documents can help, there is generally a risk over time of > there being a large enough number of configurations that they no longer > help very much as everyone chooses his/her favourite.
I concur. Parameterization look like a nice optimization for our process, but are not helpful to interoperability. While people sometimes get afraid about how many combinations there could be, in practice, there never are that many, and getting a COSE artifact with alg=IDONTKNOWTHISONE is the same as getting it with parameter YOUDONTKNOW. Integers are cheap, and often plentiful. -- Michael Richardson <[email protected]> . o O ( IPv6 IøT consulting ) Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide
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