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Re: [smime] HTTP Encrypted Content-Encoding

2015-04-02 10:13:18
Martin:

In particular, I think that CMS encrypted types might be useful here to give 
them more flexibility than what they have now, and so they don't eventually 
have to reinvent a bunch of CMS. It also might be overkill. Thoughts?

It was an explicit goal to NOT have flexibility in addition to what is
provided by content-encoding negotiation.  That is, if
chacha20-poly1305 was considered categorically better, a new
content-encoding would be needed and support for it negotiated using
the mechanisms that HTTP provides.

I do not understand the desire to avoid crypto agility.

Russ
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