Re: [COSE] tstr values for kty, alg, crv, etc.

2021-08-09 Thread Laurence Lundblade
> On Aug 9, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > > Carsten Bormann wrote: >> This discussion is all a bit short sighted to me. Sure, we can advise >> against registering text labels now. But COSE has a long life with many >> applications before it, some of which may be outside

Re: [COSE] tstr values for kty, alg, crv, etc.

2021-08-09 Thread Michael Richardson
Carsten Bormann wrote: > This discussion is all a bit short sighted to me. Sure, we can advise > against registering text labels now. But COSE has a long life with many > applications before it, some of which may be outside what you are > thinking about now. What’s the rush on

Re: [COSE] Key identifier of type bstr / int

2021-08-09 Thread Laurence Lundblade
A small comment on code size as the author of a commercial-quality COSE implementation designed to have small code size. There is a bit of a trade-off between code size and bytes on the wire. Reducing the bytes on the wire by one byte in this case will lead to an increase in code size by a lot