Hi Hannes,

I’m afraid this is even more confusing than your last note.

> On 2023-07-20, at 11:48, Tschofenig, Hannes 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Mike,
>  
> Here is the question the working group is facing.
>  
> Should there
>       • be a single value associated with the combination of KEM, KDF, and 
> AEAD, or

“The” combination?  Each combination?  All combinations?
(Which means there is an additional data item containing the specific  
combination.)

>       • individual values for each of them.

Individual *data items*, with values defined for each to be used in combination 
for those additional data items?

> The former design is often called ciphersuite.

Is “former” (a)?  If (a) says “each specific combination”, I can parse that.

> We used (a) in earlier versions of the COSE-HPKE draft (see, for example, 
> draft-ietf-cose-hpke-01 ) and (b) in later versions of the draft (see, for 
> example, draft-ietf-cose-hpke-05).
>  
> Based on my assessment of the feedback from the group, there is a preference 
> to switch back to the ciphersuite approach.

Right.

(And I have made a proposal to more or less solve the biggest problem with 
ciphersuites, but that is somewhat orthogonal.)

Grüße, Carsten


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