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[CFRG] Re: Where should test vectors live?

Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx> Fri, 20 September 2024 01:13 UTC

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From: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:13:30 -0400
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FWIW, RFC 6716 contains the source code of a reference implementation, and
instructions for how to extract and build the code from the RFC:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6716#appendix-A.1

You could do a similar thing with test vectors.

On Thu, Sep 19, 2024 at 9:10 PM Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2024, 5:18 PM Christopher Patton <cpatton=
> 40cloudflare.com@dmarc.ietf.org> 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?
>>
>
> Why not in ignored elements (not sure how to do)in the XML source? This
> might take some tools team input.
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Chris P.
>>
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