Re: ISSUE: Define MGF AlgorithmIdentifiers

Please see the Editor's Draft - this was updated a month ago

https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcrypto-api/rev/5a80f9413855

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Richard Barnes <rbarnes@bbn.com> wrote:
> RSA-PSS and RSA-OAEP require the developer to specify a hash function and a masking generating function via an AlgorithmIdentifier.
>
> dictionary RsaPssParams : AlgorithmParameters {
>   // The hash function to apply to the message
>   AlgorithmIdentifier hash;
>
>   // The mask generation function
>   AlgorithmIdentifier mgf;
>
>   // The desired length of the random salt
>   unsigned long saltLength;
> };
>
> There are specified algorithm identifiers in the document for hash function.  But there are none for MGFs.  We should probably add some.
>
> --Richard

Received on Thursday, 28 February 2013 21:44:28 UTC