Re: Spec for RSA-OAEP doesn't say what to do for null or missing or array buffer view labels from Boris Zbarsky on 2014-07-09 (public-webcrypto@w3.org from July 2014)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 15:37:53 -0400
To: Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com>, Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
CC: "public-webcrypto@w3.org" <public-webcrypto@w3.org>
Message-ID: <53BD9A11.5000208@mit.edu>

On 7/9/14, 3:34 PM, Ryan Sleevi wrote:
> Regarding how to treat null, yes, we should treat it the same way
> AES-GCM handles an empty additionalData

I would actually recommend dropping nullability here altogether, unless 
there's some sort of back compat need.  Missing should be treated as 
empty, ArrayBuffer and ArrayBufferView should be copied as already in 
the spec, null should just throw.

-Boris

Received on Wednesday, 9 July 2014 19:38:23 UTC