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

[Greg Hudson <[e-mail]>]

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://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30574-3_14>.

> - You might want to consider your usage of "man-in-the-middle" in light of
> https://www.ietf.org/about/groups/iesg/statements/on-inclusive-language/.

I will change this usage to "machine-in-the-middle".