Re: Inclusion of rsaes-pkcs1 from Wan-Teh Chang on 2012-09-06 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from September 2012)

From: Wan-Teh Chang <wtc@google.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:29:49 -0700
To: Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com>
Cc: "public-webcrypto@w3.org Working Group" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>, Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>
Message-ID: <CALTJjxHW4cM9shmEXQNFrqOsxPoN8yn6F2tDTmCW-biLUdL6xw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> This leads me to wonder whether we should say "recommended for" and
> "only recommended for" in terms of usage.  Maybe we should discourage
> signing, for example.

RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5 is a signature algorithm. (The "SSA" part stands for
"signature scheme with appendix".)

RSAES-PKCS1-V1_5 is an encryption algorithm. (The "ES" part stands for
"encryption scheme".)

So in general it is clear what usage they are recommended for.

Wan-Teh

Received on Thursday, 6 September 2012 17:30:21 UTC