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Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Thu, 09 July 2020 14:11 UTC

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Subject: [netconf] question regarding key naming
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Question:

In the crypto-types draft, the symmetric and asymmetric key definitions each support three encodings for the secret key-data: cleartext, hidden, and encrypted.  To see this, here are direct links to the tree diagrams:

    - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.1.4.2 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.1.4.2>
    - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.1.4.4 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.1.4.4>

My question is, should the “key” and “private-key” nodes be renamed to “cleartext-key” and “cleartext-private-key”?

    PROs:
        - a positive assertion the key is in the clear is more secure

    CONs:
        - a longer name for the most common case

Thoughts?



PS: I’m aware that the truststore draft’s "Data at Rest” Security Consideration section has a copy/paste error in it, which I’ll update that before the cutoff...

K.

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