Is it time to drop ECDSA references in the standard?

[Johnson Darren <darren.johnson@gemalto.com>]

Hi

the EC section of the standard continuously makes allowances for the older ECDSA data types that was deprecated in v2.11.  For example

 

EC (also related to ECDSA) public…

key type CKK_EC or CKK_ECDSA …

CKA_EC_PARAMS^1,3 (CKA_ECDSA_PARAMS)

The CKA_EC_PARAMS or CKA_ECDSA_PARAMS attribute…

creating an EC (ECDSA) public key object…

denoted CKM_EC_KEY_PAIR_GEN or CKM_ECDSA_KEY_PAIR_GEN,…

and so on…

 

Given that this is a major revision of the standard (v3.0), is now a good time to remove all the text that references these deprecated values?  The deprecated values should be left in the header files, but I don’t see the need to keep them alive in the standard.

 

It is mostly an editorial change to delete the extra text.  I have no problem writing up a proposal to make the editors job easier.  But I thought I would poll the group to see if there is any appetite for this type of clean up.

 

Thanks

Darren

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