Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01

Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org> Sat, 31 May 2014 11:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01
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On 31 May 2014 08:21, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> wrote:
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> This draft is related to cryptography.  It is difficult to find people
> with the necessary expertise to review drafts about cryptography.
>

Cryptography expertise not required.


> The reason for this work is get a code point assignment that requires IETF
> Consensus.


This attitude of yours also not required


>  The assignment does not negatively impact interoperability or otherwise
> extend IETF protocols in an inappropriate or damaging manner

 .
but it will if opinions vary about how to construct the fingerprint.

Compare and contrast your document with RFC4255 which defines the data to
be hashed by reference to RFC4253.