PKCS 1.5 signatures deprecated?

It seems from the list of algorithms that the signature method used by 99.99% of all existing
applications has been deprecated since it is not listed.

It doesn't get less puzzling when W3C's latest XML Signature draft
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core2 <http://www.w3.org/TR/xmldsig-core2/>
list PKCS 1.5 signatures as REQUIRED and doesn't even mention the RSA-PSS algorithm as OPTIONAL!

No, I'm not a cryptographer but AFAIK nobody has cracked PKCS 1.5 signatures
in the way that has happened with PKCS 1.5 encryption and recently with AES-CBC.

Feel free RECOMMEND whatever the "crypto-skeptical-community" thinks is OK,
but ignoring the de-facto standard is probably not a great idea.

Anders

Received on Friday, 17 August 2012 04:41:32 UTC