On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 08:07:19PM +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote: > > > I'd further encourage minimising the number of values to be > defined now to only those that are needed now. And even > further encourage general libraries to support only a tiny > number of the options that'll inevitably get defined. Two > or maybe three would probably be plenty to start from.
Unfortunately, even currently it would be 12. ... Then there is I-D that would push it to 18... ... And foreseeable extension, that would push it to 27... ... And the rest I can't even estimate. Basically, it easier to just support all the combos than to support some fixed list of ciphersuites. And from experience implementing HPKE: The various non-base modes are much more annoying than all the KEM/KDF/AEAD combos. -Ilari _______________________________________________ COSE mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/cose
