On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 05:14:16PM +0000, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> RFC Errata System <[email protected]> writes:
> 
> >Section 7.2 of RFC 8017 describes the RSAES-PKCS1-v1_5 encryption scheme.
> >Section 8.2 of RFC 8017 describes the RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 signature scheme. The
> >original text contradicts the natural expectation and is probably wrong.
> 
> The original text is correct, TLS 1.2 (and earlier) use PKCS #1 v1.5.  Stating
> that RSA-PSS should be used is wrong.

Section 7.2 is an encryption scheme, not a signature scheme; this is just a
typo.

(And RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 is, well, PKCS #1 v1.5, not RSASSA-PSS.)

-Ben

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