Dear Donald Eastlake, Giving the advances in SHA-1 collision search where first collisions may be expected in even less than a year and given that national legislations explicitly require collision free hash functions and may exclude SHA-1 immediately after first collisions, alternatives in XMLDSIG are needed. In the ECDSA signature suites this is so far limited to the SHA-2 family -- no SignatureMethod Algorithm URI exists. As several widely deployed ECDSA solutions (e.g. smartcards) are technically limited to 160 bit hash functions where RIPEMD160 is the valid alternative, the risk exists that vendors or CAs are forced to deploy proprietary EDCSA-XMLDSIG -- RIPEMD160 solutions. Therefore, an URI for ECDSA (ANSI X 9.62) with RIPMD160 is urgently needed. We suggest to use the fragment #ecdsa-ripemd160 to be used in the xmldsig-more namespace. http://www.w3.org/2001/04/xmldsig-more#ecdsa-ripemd160 We further propose to add the following Sentence to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4051#section-2.3.6 . "The #ecdsa-ripemd160 fragment of this namespace identifies a signature method processed in the same way as specified by the #ecdsa-sha1 fragment of this namespace with the exception that RIPEMD160 is used instead of SHA-1." kind regards Konrad Lanz -- A-SIT Konrad Lanz, IAIK/SIC - Graz University of Technology Inffeldgasse 16a, 8010 Graz, Austria Tel: +43 316 873 5547 Fax: +43 316 873 5520 https://www.iaik.tugraz.at/aboutus/people/lanz http://jce.iaik.tugraz.at Certificate chain (including the EuroPKI root certificate): https://europki.iaik.at/ca/europki-at/cert_download.htm
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