Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-pkalgs-supp-01.txt

[Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Russ,

"Housley, Russ" wrote:
> I think the idea is to provide the OIDs and associated syntax for
> additional public key algorithms.  Right now it only has the NTRU
> algorithms, but others could be added too.

Sure they could. But which/when? I don't recall any suggestions
of this sort, but then my memory is pretty bad sometimes.
 
> In the S/MIME WG, we have many algorithm documents.  For example:
>          Use of the IDEA Encryption Algorithm in CMS
>          Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm in CMS
>          Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in CMS
>          Use of the AES Encryption Algorithm and RSA-OAEP
>                   Key Transport in CMS
>          Use of ECC Algorithms in CMS
> 
> Perhaps a similar naming approach should be adopted.

I'd agree that its probably better to do that if there's 
only going to be ntru in this draft.

Cheers,
Stephen.


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