> On 29 Feb 2016, at 7:39 PM, Viktor Dukhovni <ietf-d...@dukhovni.org> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 09:32:04AM -0800, Joseph Salowey wrote:
> 
>> We seem to have good consensus on moving to RSA-PSS and away from PKCS-1.5
>> in TLS 1.3.  However, there is a problem that it may take some hardware
>> implementations some time to move to RSA-PSS.  After an off list discussion
>> with a few folks here is a proposal for moving forward.
>> 
>> We make RSA-PSS mandatory to implement (MUST implement instead of MUST
>> offer).   Clients can advertise support for PKCS-1.5 for backwards
>> compatibility in the transition period.
>> Please respond on the list on whether you think this is a reasonable way
>> forward or not.
> 
> My instinct is to mandate PSS and let PKCS#1 rest in peace.

+1

As always, certificates are fine to be signed with PKCS#1, because we are not 
specifying certificate signatures, but in-protocol signatures *are* up to us. 

Yoav

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