[Curdle] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-dh-group-exchange-05: (with COMMENT)

Spencer Dawkins <spencerdawkins.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 12 September 2017 18:48 UTC

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Subject: [Curdle] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-dh-group-exchange-05: (with COMMENT)

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draft-ietf-curdle-ssh-dh-group-exchange-05: No Objection

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So, I see that the recommendations are mostly SHOULDs.

Is this, perhaps, for backward compatibility with SSH implementations that
don't implement this specification?

This isn't remotely something I'm smart about, but I do wonder about bid-down
attacks to, say, 1024. Is that possible?

[Curdle] Spencer Dawkins' No Objection on draft-i… Spencer Dawkins