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Drop DER encoding #88

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chris-wood opened this issue Nov 4, 2024 · 2 comments
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Drop DER encoding #88

chris-wood opened this issue Nov 4, 2024 · 2 comments

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@chris-wood
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An implementation of these KEMs should not need any DER encoding or parsing logic to function. The spec should drop all use of DER encoding for KEM public keys and ciphertexts. Applications or protocols which require DER can wrap them as desired, but for the relevant hybrids here, they are simply not needed and add unnecessary complexity.

@ounsworth
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Yup. We will do this. It's become clear in the past few weeks that non-PKIX protocols would like to directly re-use our construction.

@chris-wood
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Great! Do you want PRs for this, or do you intend to make the change yourself?

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