I would agree that appears to be the case. Given that the "iv" and "tag" fields are not registered for content encryption algorithms it was not noticed at the time that flattening was proposed and adopted.
Jim > -----Original Message----- > From: jose [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nathaniel McCallum > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2016 3:34 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [jose] JWE Flattened Serialization with AES*GCMKW Sealing > > I've been working on a C implementation of JOSE: > https://github.com/npmccallum/jose > > I noticed that RFC 7518 Section 4.7 defines the AES*GCMKW algorithms for key > encryption and defines some optional header parameters: iv and tag. Am I > wrong that this seems to collide with the iv and tag parameters when > AES*GCMKW is used in the JWE Flattened Serialization? > > Can someone help clarify this for me? > > _______________________________________________ > jose mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose _______________________________________________ jose mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/jose
