Re: secp256k1 curve and algorithm registered for JOSE use

Mike, thank you so much! That sounds really awesome.

Oliver

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 3:35 PM Kyle Den Hartog <kyle.denhartog@mattr.global>
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> Hooray! Thanks for getting this through Mike.
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> -Kyle
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> *From: *Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
> *Sent: *Monday, June 1, 2020 11:18 AM
> *To: *public-did-wg@w3.org
> *Subject: *secp256k1 curve and algorithm registered for JOSE use
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> IANA has registered the “secp256k1” elliptic curve in the JSON Web Key
> Elliptic Curve
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/jose/jose.xhtml#web-key-elliptic-curve>
> registry and the corresponding “ES256K” signing algorithm in the JSON Web
> Signature and Encryption Algorithms
> <https://www.iana.org/assignments/jose/jose.xhtml#web-signature-encryption-algorithms>
> registry.  This curve is widely used among blockchain and decentralized
> identity implementations.
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> The registrations were specified by the COSE and JOSE Registrations for
> WebAuthn Algorithms
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-cose-webauthn-algorithms-06>
> specification, which was created by the W3C Web Authentication working
> group <https://www.w3.org/Webauthn/> and the IETF COSE working group
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/cose/about/> because WebAuthn
> <https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/> also allows the use of secp256k1.  This
> specification is now in IETF Last Call.  The corresponding COSE
> registrations will occur after the specification becomes an RFC.
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>                                                        -- Mike
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> P.S.  This notice was also published at https://self-issued.info/?p=2093
> and as @selfissued <https://twitter.com/selfissued>.
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