Re: Specifying allowed parameter encodings in Mozilla policy

Ryan Sleevi <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.crypto
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I support both of those requirements, so that we can avoid it on a
'problematic practices' side :)

There's a webcompat aspect for deprecation - but requiring RFC-compliant
encoding (PKCS#1 v1.5) or 'not stupid' encoding (PSS) is a good thing for
the Web :)

On Fri, May 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brian Smith filed two issues on our Root Store Policy relating to making
> specific requirements of the technical content of certificates:
>
> "Specify allowed PSS parameters"
> https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/issues/37
>
> "Specify allowed encoding of RSA PKCS#1 1.5 parameters"
> https://github.com/mozilla/pkipolicy/issues/38
>
> I am not competent to assess these suggestions and the wisdom or
> otherwise of putting them into the policy. I also am not able to draft
> text for them. Can the Mozilla crypto community opine on these
> suggestions, and what the web compat impact might be of enforcing them?
>
> Gerv
>
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