Re: [Gen-art] [Last-Call] Genart last call review of draft-ietf-lamps-crmf-update-algs-04

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Tue, 06 April 2021 12:53 UTC

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Ines, thank you for your review. I have entered a No Objection ballot for this document.

Lars


> On 2021-3-26, at 17:21, Ines Robles via Datatracker <noreply@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Reviewer: Ines Robles
> Review result: Ready with Nits
> 
> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area
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> Document: draft-ietf-lamps-crmf-update-algs-04
> Reviewer: Ines Robles
> Review Date: 2021-03-26
> IETF LC End Date: 2021-03-26
> IESG Telechat date: Not scheduled for a telechat
> 
> Summary:
> 
> The document updates the cryptographic algorithm requirements for the
> Password-Based Message Authentication Code in the Internet X.509 Public Key
> Infrastructure Certificate Request Message Format (CRMF).
> 
> The document is well written, I have minor comments/questions to the authors.
> 
> Major Issues: None
> 
> Minor Issues: None
> 
> Nits/Comments:
> 
> 1- Introduction: "however, these algorithms are no longer
>   considered the best choices. " => It would be nice to add 1 or more
>   sentences explaining why they are no longer the best choices
> 
> 2- Page 3: "id-PasswordBasedMAC as presented in Section 4.4 of this document"
> It should be perhaps be "id-PasswordBasedMAC as presented in Section 4.4 of
> [RFC4211]" ?
> 
> 3- If this document does not present privacy considerations, should it be
> explicitly mentioned in Section 6?
> 
> 4- Since the new updates include the use of PBMAC1, HMAC-SHA256, AES-GMAC AES.
> Should Section 6 include considerations about them or point to place where to
> find them? e.g. For information on security considerations for PBMAC1 see
> [rfc8018#section-8].
> 
> Thank you for this document,
> 
> Ines.
> 
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