On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 05:55:41PM +0000, Salz, Rich wrote:
> >    So if OpenSSL client connects to server that supports PSS but not
> >    TLS 1.3, the connection will fail because the client vomits at the
> >    server response?
> 
> I *think* it will fail cleanly because it gets an ALERT message, but
> I am not sure. I am no longer involved with OpenSSL, I just did a
> cursory read of the source.

>From reading the code, I think it won't actually fail. It seems that
using TLS 1.3 is the antecedent, and using RSA-PSS is the consequent.
The comment is ambiguous on which is which.

I can not see any way for that code to affect anything for TLS 1.2, but
for TLS 1.3 it definitely seems to make non-PSS RSA signatures fail.


-Ilari

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