Re: [Cfrg] Crypto-panel review of draft-selander-ace-cose-ecdhe-12

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 27 February 2019 15:08 UTC

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>> Minor Concerns:
> 
>> In addition, it would help the reader to provide a forward pointer to
>> the sections define the aad_2 and aad_3 structures.
> 
> That was added to Section 3.3. in versrion 12: "where aad_2 and aad_3 are hashes of previous messages and data, defined in Sections 4.3.1 and 4.4.1." Is there any other place that would benefit from a pointers?

This is a minor concern, but to me, the pointers would have been more useful in the bullets earlier in Section 3.3.

Russ