Re: [Crypto-panel] Fwd: [Cfrg] Adoption call for draft-harkins-pkex-05

I support this work. I think this is a worthwhile use case, and the 
solution is based on credible cryptography.

Thanks,
	Yaron

On 05/08/18 16:34, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> Dear Crypto Panel members,
> 
> Does anybody else wants to weigh in on whether this draft should be
> taken as a new work item by CFRG. (If you already replied on the CFRG
> mailing list, you don't need to state your opinion again.)
> 
> Thank you,
> Alexey
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [Cfrg] Adoption call for draft-harkins-pkex-05
> Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 12:41:58 +0100
> From: Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com>
> To: cfrg@irtf.org <cfrg@irtf.org>
> 
> Dear CFRG participants,
> This message is starting a 2 weeks adoption call for
> draft-harkins-pkex-05 (Public Key Exchange). From the document's
> Introduction:
> 
>     [RFC7250] further states that "the main security challenge [to using
>     'raw' public keys] is how to associate the public key with a specific
>     entity.  Without a secure binding between identifier and key, the
>     protocol will be vulnerable to man-in-the- middle attacks."
> 
>     The Public Key Exchange (PKEX) is designed to fill that gap: it
>     establishes a secure binding between exchanged public keys and
>     identifiers, it provides proof-of-possession of the exchanged public
>     keys to each peer, and it enables the establishment of trust in
>     public keys that can subsequently be used to facilitate
>     authentication in other authentication and key exchange protocols.
>     At the end of a successful run of PKEX the two peers will have trust
>     in each others exchanged public keys and also share an authenticated
>     symmetric key which may be discarded or used for another purpose.
> 
> The adoption call will last for 2 weeks and will end on April 22nd.
> 
> Thank you,
> Kenny and Alexey
> 
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