Re: [Cfrg] [IANA #809084] Conflict Review requested for draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305

Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> Fri, 20 February 2015 21:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] [IANA #809084] Conflict Review requested for draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305
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Fixed in version -10.

> On Feb 17, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Pearl Liang via RT <drafts-eval@iana.org> wrote:
> 
> Thank you Stefan for pointing that out.
> 
> Yoav, please update the next version of the draft to the new requested name to 
> 'AEAD_CHACHA20_POLY1305' with underscores.  Regarding what characters
> are allowed in RFC5116, you may check with David McGrew.
> 
> I leave it as IANA Okay for the draft.
> 
> Thanks,
> ~pl
> 
> On Tue Feb 17 09:40:17 2015, ynir.ietf@gmail.com wrote:
>> On Feb 17, 2015, at 8:52 AM, Stefan Bühler <source@stbuehler.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 00:28:22 +0200
>>> Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi.
>>>> 
>>>> RFC 5116 makes no statement about what characters are allowed for
>>>> names in this registry. The only requirement is for names to begin
>>>> with “AEAD_”. Additionally, these names are not used in any protocol,
>>>> so the risk of having parsers making assumptions is very low.
>>>> 
>>>> The reason this name contains a hyphen is to distinguish parameters
>>>> and modes of operation that are separated by underscored (such as
>>>> AEAD_AES_128_GCM, where 128 is the key length and GCM is the mode of
>>>> operation), from combinations of algorithms that we separated by a
>>>> hyphen. That same algorithms might have been named AEAD_AES_128-GHASH
>>>> instead. Since there is no mode of operation associated with
>>>> Poly1305, we instead used the hyphen notation. 
>>>> 
>>>> I don’t believe this makes much of a difference either way, so if
>>>> others believe it should be replaced with an underscore, that’s fine
>>>> with me.
>>> 
>>> I think many implementations will try to use the name as identifier,
>>> and most languages won't allow hyphens as part of that - so I'd replace
>>> it with an underscore to have consistent names.
>> 
>> I’m fine with that as well.
> 
>