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On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:47 AM, Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> wrote:

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> *From:* Mark Watson [mailto:watsonm@netflix.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, February 24, 2014 10:06 AM
> *To:* Jim Schaad
> *Cc:* Ryan Sleevi; public-webcrypto@w3.org
> *Subject:* Re: Diffie-Hellman question
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> So, if the libraries people are using to implement WebCrypto right now
> support only PKCS#3, shouldn't we stick with that for this first version ?
> Just as we have "RSASSA-PKCS1-v1_5" we could have "DH-PKCS3" and later
> introduce X9.42.
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> Not supporting a full set of parameters is not acceptable.  The WebCrypto
> implementation can always reduce from the X9.42 parameters to PKCS#3
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> That would mean that in this version we would not be able to support
> export except in raw format. I would then suggest that we support import
> only in that format too. It's not quite clear what import is for, though,
> except perhaps to enable use of the DH Phase II primitive with a private
> value generated some way other than deriveKey: we would need a
> DhImportParams dictionary to provide the prime and generator. Importing a
> DH public key is useless, because the only think a Key object representing
> a DH public key can be used for is to export the Public Value.
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> Again – I do not believe that raw makes any sense for asymmetric
> algorithms.  You always need to have the parameters with the private key
> value.  Before doing a key agreement step, the implementation MUST check
> that both sides have the same set of parameters.
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> RAW exists for symmetric algorithms.  Don’t use it for asymmetric
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Jim,

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