On Mon, 2016-08-08 at 14:55 +0200, Martin Rex wrote:

> > Please see the paper "Another Look at ``Provable Security''" from
> > Neal
> > Koblitz and Alfred Menezes.
> > 
> > https://eprint.iacr.org/2004/152
> > 
> > Section 7: Conclusion
> > 
> > "There is no need for the PSS or Katz-Wang versions of RSA;
> > one might as well use just the basic ?hash and exponentiate?
> > signature
> > scheme (with a full-domain hash function)."
> The advantages of the RSA-PSS signature scheme are limited to
> situations
> where the rightful owner of the private signing key is not supposed
> to have access to the bits of the private key (i.e. key kept in
> hardware).

Is that limited, so limited today? Aren't we at a time where the
majority of servers will use an HSM (either real hardware or
virtualized)?

regards,
Nikos

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