I Erred Re: RSA private key import diff Chrome/Firefox

• From: Anders Rundgren <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com>
• Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2014 16:30:53 +0100
• To: "public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org" <public-webcrypto-comments@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <5458F12D.2010503@gmail.com>

Pardon.  It turned out to be the same for Firefox.
All is good. SHOULD = MUST.
Anders

On 2014-11-04 16:26, Anders Rundgren wrote:
> Hi,
> I haven't done any extensive testing but it seems that the SHOULD mentioned in JOSE algorithms regarding parameters beyond "d" is interpreted as a MUST in Chrome but not in Firefox.
>
> 6.3.2.  Parameters for RSA Private Keys
>
>      In addition to the members used to represent RSA public keys, the
>      following members are used to represent RSA private keys.  The
>      parameter "d" is REQUIRED for RSA private keys.  The others enable
>      optimizations and SHOULD be included by producers of JWKs
>      representing RSA private keys.
>
> Although I don't like dictatorships, I always had a problem with SHOULD :-)
>
> Anders
>

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