On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 23/01/15 17:57, Richard Barnes wrote:
> >> >
> >> > I think it's at least arguable that that'd be worth the
> >> > code to produce a hashed SPKI and better than either aiming
> >> > for the simplest possible code, or for the current hash
> >> > input from the draft.
> >> >
> > Dude, seriously.  The whole point of this WG is to not do ASN.1.
>
> Yeah well, it's just a different fixed template so it's
> not "doing" ASN.1 at all really, or only about as much
> as PKCS#1 requires, which is almost nothing. And SPKI
> formatted export of public keys is supported directly
> in lots of crypto libraries, incl. WebCrypto so it's
> probably even less lines of code if the key was already
> imported/generated. And it is the same as some other
> protocols use, providing interop, which is also the
> whole point of this and other WGs I'd guess (...dude:-)
>

Yes, you could quasi-templatize it.  You would still have to manually
adjust length fields and munge byte strings together.  Eww.

Given the amount of DANE deployment, it's not a huge priority for me.  DANE
could also meet us half-way here by defining a new binding type should
there be a need.

--Richard



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