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Re: [Cfrg] normative references

Yaron Sheffer <yaronf.ietf@gmail.com> Wed, 15 January 2014 08:25 UTC

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Hi David,

Somewhere down the Safe Curves thread you mention that you expect a CFRG 
draft to contain "stable normative references" to definitions of crypto 
mechanisms. I share this wish in part, in particular I would appreciate 
"stable" references (e.g., to academic papers). However many/most crypto 
publications are not aimed at implementors. Often they are not 
well-specified enough to implement. And we don't want to wait a few 
years for NIST to create normative versions. So I would actually expect 
the new CFRG document to become the "normative" reference.

Thanks,
	Yaron

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