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RSA needs to distinguish between RSA keys with different OIDs and parameters #17

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tniessen opened this issue Aug 13, 2019 · 2 comments
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WebCrypto requires implementations to be able to distinguish between the OIDs rsaEncryption, sha1WithRSAEncryption, sha256WithRSAEncryption, sha384WithRSAEncryption, sha512WithRSAEncryption, id-RSAES-OAEP and id-RSASSA-PSS, and for the last two, we even need access to the ASN.1 parameters.

This is currently not possible using the KeyObject API.

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panva commented Aug 13, 2019

Similar for EC and (in the future, not part of webcrypto yet) OKP keys, you'll need the curve name from the key too.

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@panva The curve name would have been part of my original proposal in nodejs/node#26854, I guess we could use a similar pattern for the other OIDs / parameters.

Another problem is that WebCrypto requires the ability to export keys with a different OID than they were imported with, so we would need to implement some kind of conversion.

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