Re: [Crypto-panel] [Cfrg] Fwd: Rev RFC 7539?

I just sent the review.

On Jan 18, 2017, at 9:45 AM, Paterson, Kenny <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi Russ,
> 
> Thanks for offering. Stanislav also volunteered, but I think having two
> independent reviews will do no harm at all here, since the intention is to
> catch as many things as possible. So please go ahead in your suggested
> timeframe. 
> 
> We didn't quite settle on a mechanism for handling these reviews yet, but
> in this case I'd suggest e-mailing your comments to CFRG in the
> appropriate thread once they are ready.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Kenny
> 
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> On 17/01/2017 15:53, "Russ Housley" <housley@vigilsec.com> wrote:
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>> I can do it late this week or early next week.
>> 
>> Russ
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>> On Jan 17, 2017, at 6:16 AM, Paterson, Kenny <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk>
>> wrote:
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>>> Dear CFRG Review Panel members,
>>> 
>>> Please could we have a volunteer to review this document from Yoav Nir?
>>> 
>>> The document is a proposed revision to RFC 7539 ("ChaCha20 and Poly1305
>>> for IETF Protocols") to address a number of errata that were found in
>>> the
>>> original RFC in a systematic way.
>>> 
>>> The purpose of the review would be to check that the corrections make
>>> sense and to try to identify any further glitches that remain.
>>> Additional
>>> remarks would be welcome of course.
>>> 
>>> If you volunteer, it would be helpful to also indicate a time-scale for
>>> delivering your review.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> 
>>> Kenny  
>>> 
>>> On 12/01/2017 06:24, "Cfrg on behalf of Yoav Nir" <cfrg-bounces@irtf.org
>>> on behalf of ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Reminder.
>>>> 
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>>>> Is there interest in pushing this forward?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Yoav
>>>> 
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>>>> Begin forwarded message:
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>>>> From: Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
>>>> 
>>>> Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Rev RFC 7539?
>>>> 
>>>> Date: 16 November 2016 at 9:09:11 GMT+2
>>>> 
>>>> To: Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com>
>>>> 
>>>> Cc: IRTF CFRG <cfrg@irtf.org>
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Cycles found.
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>>>> Attached please find two files:
>>>> 1. rfc7539_long.txt is RFC 7539 with page breaks and page numbers
>>>> removed. 
>>>> 2. draft-nir-cfrg-rfc7539bis-00.raw.txt
>>>> is the unpaginated form of the new draft.
>>>> 
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>>>> Couldn’t do much about the boilerplate, but this makes it easy to
>>>> compare.
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>>>> 
>>>> Yoav
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>>>> On 16 Nov 2016, at 10:06, Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> wrote:
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>>>> +1 - if you got the cycles.
>>>> 
>>>> spt
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>>>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 15:55, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> This seems like a good plan.
>>>> 
>>>> -Ekr
>>>> 
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>>>> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> RFC 7539 (“ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols”)[1] is now
>>>> implemented in many places and referenced by 3 RFCs and 8 Internet
>>>> Drafts
>>>> ([2])
>>>> 
>>>> However, the quality of the document is not where we’d like it to be.
>>>> There have been 7 errata filed against it. Most of it is editorial or
>>>> insignificant, but still no errata is better than some errata.
>>>> 
>>>> So what do the participants and chairs think about spinning up a
>>>> quick[4]
>>>> rfc7539bis that has the same text, except that the errata will be
>>>> merged
>>>> in?
>>>> 
>>>> I think such a document should be fairly easy and quick.
>>>> 
>>>> Yoav
>>>> 
>>>> P.S: and yes, of course I’m volunteering to write it.
>>>> 
>>>> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7539
>>>> [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc7539/referencedby/
>>>> [3] https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7539
>>>> [4] My spell check actually corrected “quick” to “quic”. The contents
>>>> of
>>>> my mails are veering far away from regular English.
>>>> 
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