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Re: [Cfrg] I-D Action: draft-irtf-cfrg-xmss-hash-based-signatures-06.txt

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 25 July 2016 14:34 UTC

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On 25/07/16 14:52, Watson Ladd wrote:
> But your proposed language doesn't clearly differentiate between the
> security of the scheme and the deployability.

That's fair. I'd welcome better proposals but don't agree
with Kenny's IMO somewhat overly optimistic text. (Again
though, I personally do see value in this being done with
a generic bit of cautionary text, followed by some that is
specific to the content of the rest of the document, but
others may disagree with that approach.)

Cheers,
S.

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