Re: draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding-08, Relaxing UTF-8 requirement for `keyid`

The requirement is already relaxed, it's a SHOULD.  I don't see that
as a problem in this case.

On 23 March 2017 at 13:03, Kit Cambridge <kit@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding-08#section-2.1,
> the `keyid` parameter is defined to be a UTF-8 encoded string. However,
> https://webpush-wg.github.io/webpush-encryption uses the `keyid` to encode
> the sender's ephemeral DH public key.
>
> Given that this field can be used to carry any kind of keying info, I'm
> wondering if we might relax the UTF-8 requirement.
>
> Cheers,
> - kit

Received on Saturday, 25 March 2017 21:51:45 UTC