On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 9:52 AM Orie Steele <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> We got some good responses from the TLS list on the interpretation of their 
> suites, please review them:
>
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/tls/LXBUvjMdhEpgIEC1CEzTuDKZNwY/

Yes, that summarizes exactly what the JOSE group was warned about many
years ago wrt. the polymorphic approach.

The experiences with TLS 1.2 and 1.3 further underscores the reasons
that the Data Integrity work at the W3C has decided to NOT go down the
"polymorphic" algorithm path.

The problem with the "fully specified" specification is that it's
attempting to slap a bandaid on the problem which is only going to
make the problem worse. Banning polymorphic algorithm identifiers
would be the way to go, but as I said, the JOSE group made the
decision to go down the polymorphic algorithm identifier route long
ago and supporting both polymorphic and fully-specified will just make
everything more complicated for JOSE developers and lead to
interoperability failures.

-- manu

-- 
Manu Sporny - https://www.linkedin.com/in/manusporny/
Founder/CEO - Digital Bazaar, Inc.
https://www.digitalbazaar.com/

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