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Specify the other fields of signature #4

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MarkLodato opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by #11
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Specify the other fields of signature #4

MarkLodato opened this issue Dec 1, 2020 · 1 comment · Fixed by #11

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@MarkLodato
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The current spec lists the other fields as ... because it was originally written as a diff from in-toto's current format (ITE-5). This needs to be fleshed out for the spec to be stand-alone.

There is only one field to define: keyid. The meaning and semantics of this field are currently under discussion. @SantiagoTorres, @TomHennen, @nenaddedic, and I talked about this in our last meeting, but we didn't come to any conclusion. In-toto currently defines KEYID as a cryptographic hash over some representation of the key. However, it may be valuable to leave this user-defined in case users want to use an identifier with their key management system of choice.

@trishankatdatadog
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You are right, keyids should be user-defined. We are changing TUF to allow users to define unique-per-role-file (substitute role with layout for in-toto) keyids, which allows for flexibility without breaking security.

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