Re: Syslog-sign: RSA support?

Jon Callas <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.syslog
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Aug 11, 2008, at 5:49 AM, Martin Schütte wrote:

> Jon Callas schrieb:
>> But that's what the existing consensus is. Do we have to, at this  
>> late date, throw out the existing consensus and put in RSA and CAs?
>
> I think we can agree not to have any notion of CAs in syslog-sign,
> besides the simple fact that users of PKIX and OpenPGP keys might  
> use one witout affecting syslog-sign.
>
>
> But what would be necessary to include RSA and ECDSA? As far as I  
> see we just had to assign two additional VERsion digits values for  
> the Signature Scheme.

I agree that it's not all that difficult to add it in, but the draft  
has gone this far with WG consensus that it is not needed. I don't  
think we can add it without pulling it out of last call and re-opening  
it up. I might be wrong, but nonetheless, Pasi Eronen asked the  
question of why it was DSA-only, and we answered. I don't believe we  
have to add in RSA. During last call, ADs ask a number of good, tough  
questions that don't require negating the WG consensus. And since the  
document in its present state is a product of WG consensus, we need a  
semblance of that to add in a major new feature like a new public key  
algorithm.

	Jon


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