Re: [kitten] John Scudder's No Objection on draft-ietf-kitten-krb-spake-preauth-11: (with COMMENT)

[John Scudder <[e-mail]>]

SGTM. Thanks. 

—John

> On Jan 18, 2024, at 12:57 PM, Greg Hudson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On 1/17/24 11:41, John Scudder via Datatracker wrote:
>> - Section 4.3 ends with the line,
>> 
>>    KEY_USAGE_SPAKE  65
>> 
>>   I understand this to be, that you're providing the reader with the
>>   IANA-assigned value. But without descriptive words around it, it's just
>>   puzzling and lacking in context. I think you could safely delete the line,
>>   since its information is included in Section 11 and in general it's
>>   desirable, in my experience, to have only a single source of truth for this
>>   kind of thing. Or otherwise, maybe you can work the information into the
>>   prose more smoothly.
> 
> I will delete the line.
> 
>> - Although RFC 7322 section 4.8.6 provides shockingly little guidance about how
>> to format your references, I still think you should try to do better than
> 
> I will copy the additional reference text from RFC 9032, yielding:
> 
>   [SPAKE]    Abdalla, M. and D. Pointcheval, "Simple Password-Based
>              Encrypted Key Exchange Protocols", Cryptography-CT-RSA
>              2005, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 3376,
>              pages 191-208, Springer, DOI 10.1007/978-3-540-30574-3_14,
>              February 2005,
>              <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30574-3_14__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!C9QBcQzX4BX66N4CIBJriwC1FP0ZXfLi9ffPJ6PaM6J06grc5QakN5TyVgl6WTX9do6FIEJ6suXJsg$ >.
> 
>> - You might want to consider your usage of "man-in-the-middle" in light of
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/on-inclusive-language/__;!!NEt6yMaO-gk!C9QBcQzX4BX66N4CIBJriwC1FP0ZXfLi9ffPJ6PaM6J06grc5QakN5TyVgl6WTX9do6FIEKp21LFJQ$ .
> 
> I will change this usage to "machine-in-the-middle".