Re: [Hipsec] RFC5201-bis: Stephen Farrell's DISCUSS questions

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Thu, 04 September 2014 07:48 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Hipsec] RFC5201-bis: Stephen Farrell's DISCUSS questions
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Hiya,

On 04/09/14 05:56, Tom Henderson wrote:
>>
> 
> How could we move this issue forward?  Stephen, would you advocate
> putting in 2048-bit and 4096-bit groups (perhaps with values 11 and 12
> respectively)?  

I would advocate putting in the 2048 bit group yes. I figure
you probably don't need the 4096 one on the basis that before
one would go there you'd want to switch to some form of ECC.
So I'd not argue to define a codepoint for the 4096 bit group
for now myself, but equally, I'd not argue against doing so.

> Or is there not enough support for this proposal?

I'm fine that that's a WG chair call.

And now that we've discussed the topic, I've cleared that
point in any case, moving to a no-objection overall.

Thanks for the discussion.

Cheers,
S.