RSA-OAEP vs. RSA-OAEP-MGF1P

Cantor, Scott cantor.2 at osu.edu
Tue Feb 3 11:28:39 EST 2015


> Right, but as the MGF1P variant was MTI in 1.0 and functionally identical,
> there's no advantage that I can see in also saying that you support the same
> bundle of algorithms under another name (the unparameterised generic
> one). So if the size of the metadata is a concern at all you'd suppress the
> more general algorithm specifier unless you did want to parameterise it.

I see what you mean, yes, that makes sense.

-- Scott



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