[Bug 26320] RsaHashedKeyAlgorithm inherits from RsaKeyAlgorithm

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=26320

--- Comment #5 from Ryan Sleevi <sleevi@google.com> ---
(In reply to Mark Watson from comment #4)
> Well, inheritance is a form os use, so they are not unused.
> 
> I left these separate because it seemed like it might be useful to have the
> base definitions available for algorithms that use RSA keys without
> parameterization with a hash. If the removed RSA-ES is the only such
> algorithm that will ever exist, then indeed these dictionaries would never
> be used.
> 
> This is entirely editorial anyway.

We had great discussions with the TAG and Boris on the non-idiomatic approach
to inheritance, with multiple vendors expressing concerns over the "C++ style"
API.

I think we can and should nuke the inheritance, as it's visible (as has been
noted before)

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Received on Thursday, 9 October 2014 21:37:01 UTC