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 _______________________________________________ COSE mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cose
