Re: [KEYPROV] PROTO WRITEUPfor draft-ietf-keyprov-symmetrickeyformat-07

Philip Hoyer wrote:
> Redundant to what exactly?

I believe I elaborated that in my initial posting.

RSA have had seeds distributed in XML format for ages and they work
on multiple platforms including mobile phones.

Anders

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: keyprov-bounces@ietf.org <keyprov-bounces@ietf.org>
> To: Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com>
> Cc: keyprov@ietf.org <keyprov@ietf.org>
> Sent: Wed Mar 03 15:54:36 2010
> Subject: Re: [KEYPROV] PROTO WRITEUPfor 
> draft-ietf-keyprov-symmetrickeyformat-07
> 
> Sean Turner wrote:
>  > Anders,
>  >
>  > PSKC is the mandatory to implement key package and nobody, that I am
>  > aware of, is trying to change that.  The container defined in
>  > draft-ietf-keyprov-symmetrickeyformat-07 is optional to implement.
> 
> I just said that it felt like a redundant solution.
> 
> /anders
> 
> 
>  >
>  > spt
>  >
>  > Anders Rundgren wrote:
>  >> The document is great from a technical point of view.
>  >>
>  >> The utility is questionable since PSKC does the same
>  >> thing and also interopes with DSKPP.  The rationale
>  >> (which has been mentioned but not been put on paper)
>  >> "cards cannot process XML" is true but provisioning
>  >> generally relies on middleware doing the unpacking
>  >> and then through some API inserting keys and attributes
>  >> in the card.
>  >>
>  >> Creating tokens that would decipher CMS is technically
>  >> doable but there is absolutely no point with that
>  >>
>  >> In case you want to know how you can deal with XML,
>  >> secure transfer of secrets, and still keep the token
>  >> device unaware of sophisticated data structures and
>  >> public key verification you may take a peek in the
>  >> following document:
>  >>
>  >> "setPiggybackedSymmetricKey"
>  >>
>  >> http://webpki.org/papers/keygen2/sks-api-arch.pdf
>  >>
>  >> Anders
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