Re: [Gen-art] review of draft-eastlake-sha2-01.txt

Yes, and in fact there is already an RFC Editor note
to fix this, and also a -02 version, so I was able to clear
my discuss. (We had an IESG retreat Monday and Tuesday,
so a number of discusses got cleared during coffee breaks.)

Thanks

     Brian

john.loughney@nokia.com wrote:
> Brian filed a discuss on this - I agree with it:
> 
> 
>>Discuss:
>>11. Security Considerations
>>
>>   This document is intended to provide convenient open source access
> 
> by
> 
>>   the Internet community to the United States of America Federal
>>   Information Processing Standard Secure Hash Algorithms (SHAs) [FIPS
>>   180-2] and HMACs based thereon.
>>
>>"open source access"? RFCs don't carry an open source license. 
>>I believe this should just read "open access".
> 
> 
> I note that the Abstract says:
> 
> Abstract
> 
>    The United States of America has adopted a suite of secure hash
>    algorithms (SHAs), including four beyond SHA-1, as part of a Federal
>    Information Processing Standard (FIPS), specifically SHA-224 [RFC
>    3874], SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.  The purpose of this document
>    is to make open source code performing these hash functions
>    conveniently available to the Internet community.  ....
> 
> I think this should be updated accordingly as well.
> 
> John
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