Re: [IPsec] Last Call: <draft-kivinen-ipsecme-secure-password-framework-01.txt> (Secure Password Framework for IKEv2) to Informational RFC

[Yaron Sheffer <[e-mail]>]

Hi Dan,

there are three drafts on the table, and they are NOT identical. Crypto 
protocols, as you know well, are a mixture of cryptography and 
engineering. While the engineering on all three is very similar, the 
cryptography is not.
I do not wish to offend, but I believe cryptography is better left to 
professional cryptographers. I am not a cryptographer; the primary 
author of draft-kuegler-ipsecme-pace-ikev2 is.

Thanks,
     Yaron

On 07/28/2011 03:48 PM, Dan Harkins wrote:
> On Wed, July 27, 2011 10:49 pm, Yaron Sheffer wrote:
>> Unfortunately Dan cannot accept that there may be objective, non
>> political reasons for the group not to adopt his work. Which is the
>> reason why three alternative proposals were published several months
>> after his proposed PAKE solution.
>    Well there certainly wasn't a technical reason. In fact, after
> delaying things for several months what we ended up with were 3
> drafts that were effectively _identical_ from a technical point of view.
> That is the prime reason that the group (and later the AD) could not
> agree on which one to choose.