On Mon, 2016-02-29 at 09:32 -0800, Joseph Salowey wrote:
> We seem to have good consensus on moving to RSA-PSS and away from
> PKCS-1.5 in TLS 1.3.  However, there is a problem that it may take
> some hardware implementations some time to move to RSA-PSS.  After an
> off list discussion with a few folks here is a proposal for moving
> forward.  
> 
> We make RSA-PSS mandatory to implement (MUST implement instead of
> MUST offer).   Clients can advertise support for PKCS-1.5 for
> backwards compatibility in the transition period.   
> Please respond on the list on whether you think this is a reasonable
> way forward or not.  

The mandatory to implement approach didn't help TLS 1.0 (which had a
DHE-RSA ciphersuite implemented by no-one for several years). If you
want to push for RSA-PSS, then please only define RSA-PSS. That, in
addition would allow to prevent that sharing of keys between TLS 1.2
and TLS 1.3 (i.e., prevent any cross-protocol attacks).

regards,
Nikos

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