On Thu, 23 May 2024 at 19:06, Ilari Liusvaara <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2024 at 04:55:51AM +0000, Michael Jones wrote: > > Speaking both as an editor of this document as a COSE co-chair, I > > think it's important to adopt this document so that it can progress > > in parallel with https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-cose-hpke/. > > > They have already been informing content and decisions between the two > > of them. It's my goal wearing both hats to keep them as aligned as > > possible (and as simple as possible). > > One should be careful with alignment. The differences between COSE and > JOSE can easily make what is sensible choice in one to be something > crazy or even impossible in the other. > > And HPKE seems to be good at poking those differences. So I see goals > "as aligned as possible" and "as simple as possible" to be fundamentally > in conflict. And I personally prefer as simple as possible for both > (meaning as little fundamental and strongly emergent stuff as possible). > Yes, our approach is to prioritize simplicity while keeping the JOSE and COSE HPKE drafts as aligned as possible given their fundamental differences. We aim to avoid introducing unnecessary complexity in JOSE HPKE. -Tiru > > > As an example: Unified mode. Obviously the simplest thing to do in COSE > (makes what seems to be two modes be weakly emergent), totally > impossible in JOSE (no way to arrange weak emergence). > > > > > -Ilari > > _______________________________________________ > jose mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >
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