On 20/07/2023 20:27, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
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.

IMO, that means someone is doing things wrong. But yeah they
probably won't agree;-(

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.

90 suites and 4 modes is a silly amount of combinations, yes,
esp since afaik all protocols so far only use base mode etc.

Cheers,
s.





-Ilari

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