Re: [Curdle] I-D Action: draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-05.txt

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 16:19 -0700, [e-mail] wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the CURves, Deprecating and a Little
> more Encryption of the IETF.
> 
>         Title           : Algorithm Identifiers for Ed25519, Ed448,
> X25519 and X448 for use in the Internet X.509 Public Key
> Infrastructure
>         Authors         : Simon Josefsson
>                           Jim Schaad
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-curdle-pkix-05.txt
> 	Pages           : 17
> 	Date            : 2017-07-03
> 
> Abstract:
>    This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 encoding
>    formats for Elliptic Curve constructs using the curve25519 and
>    curve448 curves.  The signature algorithms covered are Ed25519 and
>    Ed448.  The key agreement algorithm covered are X25519 and
> X448.  The
>    encoding for Public Key, Private Key and EdDSA digital signature
>    structures is provided.

Minor request. It would be nice if the certificate issuer of the cert
in 10.2 was included in the document. That would provide a certificate
with a ed25519 key, and would allow testing certificate chain
verification.

regards,
Nikos