Re: RFC7512 PKCS#11 URI support

David Woodhouse <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2016-04-05 at 12:49 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
> 
> If the API does not have documented behavior constraints then you can't 
> be causing a API breakage.

I think that's overstating the case a little.

Even if the behaviour is undocumented, if real applications are
depending on it in anything other than a completely crack-inspired
fashion then we shouldn't break them.

I speak of the general case, of course.

In *this* case, nobody's managed to offer any examples of where an
application might feed a valid PKCS#11 URI as a "nickname" to one of
these functions, and *depend* on the failure they currently get. Not
even as a wild hypothetical.

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dwmw2

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