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Re: [Cfrg] RFC 7664 on Dragonfly Key Exchange

"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> Fri, 13 November 2015 06:33 UTC

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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 22:33:13 -0800
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
To: Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] RFC 7664 on Dragonfly Key Exchange
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On Thu, November 12, 2015 12:43 pm, Tony Arcieri wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:
>
>>   It is nothing of the sort. That comment refers to the -00
>> version of the draft which was rushed to get out before an I-D
>> cut-off date-- to see how rushed, note the "Acknowledgements"
>> section of the draft is the xml2rfc boilerplate. In my haste
>> I failed to include a check to validate received elements (note
>> that EAP-pwd which uses the exchange and was published before
>> the draft was written includes element validation so it was
>> part of the exchange, just not included in the -00 version).
>
>
> That section also claims that Dragonfly was proven under the random oracle
> model, then goes on to describe a version that wasn't... don't you think
> that's misleading?

  No, that section describes exactly what was proven secure
under the random oracle model.

  Give it a rest dude.

  Dan.

> --
> Tony Arcieri
>

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