Andrew Ayer <[email protected]> wrote
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:48:32 -0700:

> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 21:44:46 +0100
> Linus Nordberg <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> The gossip protocol should work for both CT v1 and CT v2. If it
>> doesn't, we should fix that. If that's not possible, let's define a
>> gossip protocol version two.
>
> The sth-pollination protocol defined in draft-ietf-trans-gossip-04
> could work with v1 STHs, but section 8.2.4 says it contains an
> array of v2 STHs:
>
> "sths - an array of 0 or more fresh SignedTreeHeads as defined in
> [RFC-6962-BIS-09] Section 3.6.1."

Hmm. It seems like CT v1 has been ignored in the transition to 6962-bis.


> For this reason, I've been implementing draft-ietf-trans-gossip-00,
> which uses v1 STHs and uses the URL .well-known/ct/v1/sth-pollination.
>
> Should I be using the URL defined in -04 instead?
>
> Incidentally, -04 is not entirely clear how STHs are represented.
> RFC6962-bis no longer defines a JSON representation for STHs.  Instead
> STHs are returned in JSON responses as base64-encoded SignedTreeHeads.
> Does this mean that the sth-pollination protocol should use a JSON
> array of strings, possibly mixed with JSON objects for v1 STHs?

I don't know right now. Suggestions welcome! Well, I guess your question
is a suggestion. Analysis welcome, as well as proposed text of course. :)

Also, very happy to see implementation under way!


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