Review of draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-04

Matthew Miller <linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net> Mon, 06 March 2017 16:29 UTC

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From: Matthew Miller <linuxwolf+ietf@outer-planes.net>
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Subject: Review of draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-04
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Reviewer: Matthew Miller
Review result: Ready

[ re-posting to get it onto the mailing list archives; some bugs
prevented it the first time ]

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Document: draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305-04
Reviewer: Matthew A. Miller
Review Date: 2016-12-16
IETF LC End Date: 2016-12-16
IESG Telechat date: N/A

Summary:

Ready to be published as a Proposed Standards document.

Major issues:  NONE

Minor issues:  NONE

Nits/editorial comments:  NONE

Non-issues:

Nits is reporting a downref to RFC 7539 (ChaCha20 and Poly1035).
However it is standard practice for cryptographic algorithm
documents to be Informational rather than Standards Track,
therefore I don't think there's a real concern here.

Nits is also reporting downrefs for X680 and X690, but I believe
these are acceptable as they define ASN.1.

Review of draft-ietf-curdle-cms-chacha20-poly1305… Matthew Miller