Re: [Cfrg] RGLC on draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-10

[Watson Ladd <[e-mail]>]

On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 12:30 AM Stanislav V. Smyshlyaev
<[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Dear CFRG participants,
>
> This message is starting 2 weeks RGLC on draft-irtf-cfrg-hash-to-curve-10 ("Hashing to Elliptic Curves"), that will end on November 1st 2020. If you've read the document and think that it is ready (or not ready) for publication as an RFC, please send a message in reply to this email or directly to CFRG chairs ([e-mail]). If you have detailed comments, these would also be very helpful at this point.

I think it's ready but have three nitpicky concerns far, far,
downstream of the RGLC, which may be entirely offbase.

My first concern is with the references to a number of active drafts.
I don't want to accidentally make a giant cluster if we don't
absolutely have to. Switching these to papers describing the
applications would be a way around it, but maybe there are others.

My second nitpicky concern is with the normativity of section H: the
behavior of this code could change, especially if using F.gen() in an
extension field. It's probably very sensitive to the details of how
the fields are constructed, so I think users of this document should
be encouraged to define suites in terms a bit more strongly than are
used.

My third nitpicky concern is archiving the hash2curve-repo. There are
several times implementers are referred to it, but it's a github repo.
The RFC series has outlasted many companies and storage media. However
stable that looks now, it isn't forever. Rotted references are an ever
present threat.

Sincerely,
Watson Ladd




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