RE: I-D Action:draft-ietf-pkix-ocspagility-02.txt

["Santosh Chokhani" <SChokhani@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stefan,

First of all: That is what I have been saying: "The client needs to
specify the curve."

But, when you go to 5480, the curves are specified for the Alg ID in
SPKI.  If you look down at the ASN.1 for SIGNED MACRO type Alg ID, it
says parameters are absent.  That is why note at the start of this
thread on ocspagility-02 and I quote "If we have argument on populating
these OIDs with parameters (e.g., based on RFC 5480), we may need to
come up with different ASN.1."

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stefan Santesson [mailto:stefan@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 4:47 PM
> To: Santosh Chokhani
> Cc: ietf-pkix@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-ietf-pkix-ocspagility-02.txt
> 
> Santosch,
> 
> 
> On 09-08-17 10:39 PM, "Santosh Chokhani" 
> <SChokhani@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Stefan,
> > 
> > Shall I assume that you will add a note on the type of Alg ID?
> > 
> 
> Yes, I can do that.
> 
> > As to 5480, it has lot of curves in it.  If a client did 
> not ask for a 
> > curve and server used one of these curves, the client may not 
> > understand the curve and hence will not be able to process 
> the signature.
> 
> But the client can specify curve, and in that case the server 
> would know what the client wants, right?. That feels good 
> enough for me. I'm not sure what more you would suggest that we do?
> 
> /Stefan
> 
> 
>