I support this proposal.

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On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 2:41 AM Hannes Tschofenig <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Ilari,
>
>
> we have been for too long turning the allocation of a few values in an
> IANA registry into rocket science.
>
>
> Hence, I would just go ahead with having specifications register values
> into the IANA registry whenever the need arises. There are no problems
> with writing new documents.
>
>
> For the COSE-HPKE draft I would register a few of the currently needed
> algorithm values. Future specifications may add new values they find
> useful.
>
>
> This is a pragmatic and simple approach. It has been used in the IETF
> many times already.
>
>
> Ciao
> Hannes
>
>
> Am 17.07.2023 um 09:29 schrieb Ilari Liusvaara:
> > On Thu, Jul 13, 2023 at 11:41:49AM +0200, Hannes Tschofenig wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The following people expressed their preference for a single algorithm
> >> to express the HPKE combination of KEM/KDF/AEAD*:
> > ...
> >
> >> *: Various ways for registering this combination have been mentioned
> >> and discussed. I leave those details for later.
> > Has there been a proposal for a way that is none of the following?
> >
> >
> > 1) Systematic embedding of the ciphersuite (internal HPKE term)
> > identifiers into alg.
> >
> >
> > 2) Creating some sort of special procedure to allow registering new
> > algorithms for ciphersuites just specifying the HPKE identifer values.
> >
> >
> > 3) Not allowing adding new ciphersuites. Any new ciphersuites would
> > require a new version of COSE-HPKE.
> >
> >
> > I'm drawing a blank trying to think a way that is none of the above
> > three (even after re-reading the alg discussion thread).
> >
> >
> > Every other user of HPKE I am aware of is either not using ciphersuites
> > (most), or is not mixing HPKE ciphersuites with non-HPKE stuff (MLS),
> > so this kind of thing never even comes up.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Ilari
> >
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