+1 hannes - it is definitely an issue - if we don't provide a clear path to
interop, why standardize

Mike Prorock
CTO, Founder
https://mesur.io/



On Fri, Jul 14, 2023 at 9:14 AM Tschofenig, Hannes <hannes.tschofenig=
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Laurence,
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> the problem is that the enc is currently an opaque blob where the format
> is determined by the implementation of the selected library.
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> This means that there is zero interoperability between different
> implementations unless they happen to produce the same encoding.
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> I see this as a problem.
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> Ciao
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> Hannes
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> *Von:* lgl island-resort.com <[email protected]>
> *Gesendet:* Freitag, 14. Juli 2023 16:46
> *An:* Orie Steele <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Tschofenig, Hannes (T CST SEA-DE) <[email protected]>;
> Henk Birkholz <[email protected]>; Hannes Tschofenig <
> [email protected]>; cose <[email protected]>
> *Betreff:* Re: [COSE] COSE-HPKE and the Single Algorithm Discussion
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> On Jul 14, 2023, at 6:01 AM, Orie Steele <[email protected]>
> wrote:
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> You mean `enc` ?
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> In the case of DHKems, a public key represented as opaque bytes.
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> In the case of PQKems some other opaque bytes.
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> Our choice for enc doesn’t seem like a big issue to me because it only
> affects the encode/decode of one message. By contrast the algorithm ID is
> used in many places through out the COSE infrastructure (e.g., alg
> negotiation, key use…).
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> LL
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