Oh, never mind. Both sections include "BGPsec Router Certificates."
*scraches head* I don't know what's happening.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 5:20 PM Alberto Leiva <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I think those particular sections of RFCs 7935 and 8608 are talking
> about different documents:
>
> 3.  Asymmetric Key Pair Formats
>    The key formats used to compute signatures on CA certificates, BGPsec
>    Router Certificates, and CRLs are as specified in Section 3 of
>    [RFC7935].  This section addresses key formats found in the BGPsec
>    Router Certificate requests and in BGPsec Router Certificates.
> (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8608#section-3)
>
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:36 PM Alvaro Retana <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > [Adding sidrops.]
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > I was just looking at this report…
> > https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7935
> >
> > The report says: "All existing RPKI readers and writers that I've seen, as 
> > well as the global RPKI repository certificates themselves, currently use 
> > rsaEncryption as the public key algorithm of subjectPublicKeyInfo. 
> > Therefore, this change should also reflect existing practice.”
> >
> > It turns out that rfc8208, and then rfc8608 Updated rfc7935…the resulting 
> > text is:
> >
> >    o  algorithm (an AlgorithmIdentifier type): The id-ecPublicKey OID
> >       MUST be used in the algorithm field, as specified in Section 2.1.1
> >       of [RFC5480].  The value for the associated parameters MUST be
> >       secp256r1, as specified in Section 2.1.1.1 of [RFC5480].
> >
> >
> > The erratum was filed in May of this year, and rfc8608 was published in 
> > June.
> >
> > Does the report apply to rfc8608, or does the information there reflect 
> > existing practice?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Alvaro.
> >
> > On May 23, 2019 at 2:17:17 PM, Alberto Leiva ([email protected]) wrote:
> >
> > I see. Is this erratum-worthy?
> >
> > On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:23 AM Russ Housley <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On May 22, 2019, at 6:18 PM, Alberto Leiva <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hello
> > > >
> > > > Another question.
> > > >
> > > > RFC 7935 states the following:
> > > >
> > > > 3.1. Public Key Format
> > > >
> > > > (...)
> > > >
> > > > algorithm (which is an AlgorithmIdentifier type):
> > > > The object identifier for RSA PKCS #1 v1.5 with SHA-256 MUST be
> > > > used in the algorithm field, as specified in Section 5 of
> > > > [RFC4055]. The value for the associated parameters from that
> > > > clause MUST also be used for the parameters field.
> > > >
> > > > I've never seen a certificate that declares sha256WithRSAEncryption ({
> > > > pkcs-1 11 }) as its public key algorithm. Every certificate I've come
> > > > across labels its algorithm as rsaEncryption ({ pkcs-1 1 }).
> > > >
> > > > (Certificates always define the signature algorithm as
> > > > sha256WithRSAEncryption, but that's a different field.)
> > > >
> > > > Is everyone doing it wrong, or am I missing something?
> > > >
> > > > I'm aware that this is likely a triviality--rsaEncryption and
> > > > sha256WithRSAEncryption probably mean the same in this context.
> > > > There's also a thread in this list in which people seem to have
> > > > experienced headaches over this topic. But the thread is talking about
> > > > CMS signed objects (which I believe is different from certificates),
> > > > and happened before 7935 was released, so it feels like the RFC should
> > > > mandate something consistent with reality by now.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for any pointers.
> > >
> > > You are right.
> > >
> > > In the subjectPublicKeyInfo, the algorithm identifier should be 
> > > rsaEncryption, which is { 1, 2, 840, 113549, 1, 1, 1 }. This allow the 
> > > public key to be used with PKCS#1 v1.5, RSASSA-PSS, and RSAES-OAEP.
> > >
> > > In the signature, the algorithm identifier should be 
> > > sha256WithRSAEncryption, which is { 1, 2, 840, 113549, 1, 1, 11 }. This 
> > > identifies PKCS#1 v1.5 with SHA-256 as the hash algorithm.
> > >
> > > Russ
> > >
> > >
> >
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