Re: [Last-Call] [COSE] Last Call: <draft-ietf-cose-countersign-06.txt> (CBOR Object Signing and Encryption (COSE): Countersignatures) to Internet Standard

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> On Aug 17, 2022, at 12:44 PM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On 2022-08-17, at 16:54, Russ Housley <housley@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>        Generic_Headers /= (
> 
> This is unfortunately not doing the right thing, as it tries to turn generic headers into a type choice with a second alternative.
> 
> The way Generic_Headers is defined in 8152 does not lend itself to expanding it.
> 
> (TBD10 and TBD11 also don’t quite act like generic headers, because you may need to include them in crit.)
> 
> The extension point actually is in the second line of the group (8152, Section 3):
> 
>   header_map = {
>       Generic_Headers,
>       * label => values   ;;; extension point
>   }
> 
> No socket or similar construct is provided here to make the link to extensions explicit, so unless we want to retrofit our own socket here, I’d just say:
> 
>  CountersignatureV2_header = (
>        TBD10 => COSE_Countersignature / [+COSE_Countersignature]
>  )
> 
>  Countersignature0V2_header = (
>        TBD11 => COSE_Countersignature0
>  )
> 
> 
> Grüße, Carsten


Carsten:

Thanks for catching this.  I have incorporated your suggestion into my edit buffer.

Russ

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