On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 6:07 PM, Andrew Ayer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 17:46:18 -0700
> Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am not arguing for removal, but I don't think it's appropriate to
> > have a recommendation which precludes the use of the mode of RSA that
> > we are otherwise telling people to use.
>
> Thanks for clarifying what your concern is.
>
> The recommendation doesn't preclude the use of RSA-PSS, or any other
> nondeterministic signature scheme.  As reflected in the text, logs
> can satisfy the recommendation by signing a particular STH/SCT only
> once and storing the signature, instead of signing on demand.
>

This doesn't sound very convenient, and given the rather unbaked nature
of gossip, it seems like the wrong tradeoff. That said, it's a WG decision,
so
I trust the chairs to determine consensus.

-Ekr
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