[dispatch] I-D Action: draft-birk-pep-trustwords-00.txt (fwd)

[Bernie Hoeneisen <[e-mail]>]

Please be informed that (as promised in my earlier email) the 2nd I-D of 
the pEp (Pretty Easy Privacy) series has just been published. You can find 
it on:

   https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-birk-pep-trustwords/

Abstract:

   In public-key cryptography comparing the public keys' fingerprints of
   the communication partners involved is vital to ensure that there is
   no man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on the communication channel.
   Fingerprints normally consist of a chain of hexadecimal chars.
   However, comparing hexadecimal strings is often impractical for
   regular users and prone to misunderstandings.

   To mitigate these challenges, this memo proposes the comparision of
   trustwords as opposed to hexadecimal strings.  Trustwords are common
   words in a natural language (e.g., English) to which the hexidecimal
   strings are mapped to.  This makes the verification process more
   natural.

If you consider this work useful, please express your option and view on 
this work on this list now. If you condider this not to be useful, 
please tell us why.

Anyways, we are looking forward to your feedback!

All the best
  Bernie


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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
directories.


        Title           : pretty Easy privacy (pEp): Trustwords concept
        Authors         : Volker Birk
                          Hernani Marques
                          Bernie Hoeneisen
        Filename        : draft-birk-pep-trustwords-00.txt
        Pages           : 6
        Date            : 2018-02-22

Abstract:
   In public-key cryptography comparing the public keys' fingerprints of
   the communication partners involved is vital to ensure that there is
   no man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack on the communication channel.
   Fingerprints normally consist of a chain of hexadecimal chars.
   However, comparing hexadecimal strings is often impractical for
   regular users and prone to misunderstandings.

   To mitigate these challenges, this memo proposes the comparision of
   trustwords as opposed to hexadecimal strings.  Trustwords are common
   words in a natural language (e.g., English) to which the hexidecimal
   strings are mapped to.  This makes the verification process more
   natural.


The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-birk-pep-trustwords/

There are also htmlized versions available at:
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-birk-pep-trustwords-00
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-birk-pep-trustwords-00


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