Re: [Curdle] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-curves-10: (with COMMENT)

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 1:28 PM Mark D. Baushke <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Hi Aris & Warren & Ron,
>
> With a two of three majority, I will remove the "Copying Conditions"
> section.
>
> Regardin the key agreement abort. Here is the revised text...
>
>         ...elided...
>                     Alternative implementations of these functions
>         SHOULD abort when either input forces the shared secret to one
>         of a small set of values, as described in Section 7 of
>         [RFC7748].  Clients and servers MUST fail the key exchange if
>         the length of the received public keys are not the expected
>         lengths. An abort for these purposes is defined as a
>         disconnect (SSH_MSG_DISCONNECT) of the session and SHOULD use
>         the SSH_DISCONNECT_KEY_EXCHANGE_FAILED reason for the message
>         <xref target="IANA-REASON"/>.
>         ...elided...
>
> Where IANA-REASON is an information reference to the URL
>
>     http://www.iana.org/assignments/ssh-parameters/ssh-parameters.xhtml#ssh-parameters-3
>
> (which extended the RFC4250 and RFC4253 number space to include private
> values).
>
> Should I upload the latest revision now or wait for more comments?

Whatever you'd like / personal preference.

I personally take the "post early and often" strategy, but other
people prefer batching a bunch of edits.

W

>
>         -- Mark



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idea in the first place.
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   ---maf