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[CFRG] Re: Where should test vectors live?

Colin Perkins <csp@csperkins.org> Fri, 20 September 2024 17:03 UTC

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Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2024 18:03:47 +0100
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Hi,

The datatracker has an “Additional resources” field for each draft, 
that can be used to cross-reference to GitHub repos, etc.

Colin


On 20 Sep 2024, at 1:17, Christopher Patton wrote:

> Hi CFRG,
>
> It occurred to me today that our drafts often have human-friendly test
> vectors that look something like this:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9180#appendix-A.1.1
>
> These aren't super convenient for a machine. In theory you could write 
> a
> script that downloads https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9180.txt and 
> write
> a parser to pull out the test vectors, but does anyone really do this?
> Luckily for RFC 9180 we have a JSON version to work with instead:
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cfrg/draft-irtf-cfrg-hpke/refs/heads/master/test-vectors.json
>
> How do folks feel about pointing to machine readable test vectors from 
> an
> RFC in lieu of producing human-friendly, but machine-unfriendly in the
> appendix? Suppose for example an RFC had a pointer to a JSON blob 
> somewhere
> on datatracker. Is this feasible/desirable?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris P.

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