OTC VOTE: Keeping API compatibility with missing public key

[Tomas Mraz]

This vote is now closed.

accepted:  yes  (for: 8, against: 0, abstained: 0, not voted: 3)

Tomas

On Fri, 2020-12-04 at 13:45 +0100, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> Vote background
> ---------------
> 
> The vote on relaxing the conceptual model in regards to required
> public
> component for EVP_PKEY has passed with the following text:
> 
> For 3.0 EVP_PKEY keys, the OTC accepts the following resolution:
> * relax the conceptual model to allow private keys to exist without
> public components;
> * all implementations apart from EC require the public component to
> be
> present;
> * relax implementation for EC key management to allow private keys
> that
> do not contain public keys and
> * our decoders unconditionally generate the public key (where
> possible).
> 
> However since then the issue 13506 [1] was reported.
> 
> During OTC meeting we concluded that we might need to relax also
> other
> public key algorithm implementations to allow private keys without
> public component.
> 
> Vote
> ----
> 
> topic: For 3.0 EVP_PKEY keys all algorithm implementations that were
> usable
>        with 1.1.1 EVP_PKEY API or low level APIs without public
> component must
>        stay usable.
> 
>        This overrules the
>          * all implementations apart from EC require the public
> component to be present;
>        part of the vote closed on 2020-11-17.
> 
> Proposed by Tomas Mraz
> Public: yes
> opened: 2020-12-04
> 
> Tomas Mraz
> 
> 
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