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Re: [netconf] question regarding key naming

Kent Watsen <kent+ietf@watsen.net> Thu, 09 July 2020 14:43 UTC

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> I think longer names are a good thing here since the longer name may
> also serve as a warning.

Exactly.


> Perhaps raw-key (hidden-key, encrypted-key) and raw-private-key
> (hidden-private-key, encrypted-private-key) if you want shorter names?

“Raw” is not a bad option.   Semantically, the difference to “cleartext” seems very small.   Length isn’t a huge-issue either, being a programmatic API.  Maybe one is preferred from a historical-use perspective?  (Rich, maybe you can comment here?)

Here’s a couple relevant snippets from https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.2.1: <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netconf-crypto-types-16#section-2.2.1:>


     <symmetric-key>
       <name>ex-octet-string-based-symmetric-key</name>
       <key-format>ct:octet-string-key-format</key-format>
       <key>base64encodedvalue==</key>
     </symmetric-key>


     <asymmetric-key>
       <name>ex-subject-public-info-based-asymmetric-key</name>
       <public-key-format>
         ct:subject-public-key-info-format
       </public-key-format>
       <public-key>base64encodedvalue==</public-key>
       <private-key-format>
         ct:rsa-private-key-format
       </private-key-format>
       <private-key>base64encodedvalue==</private-key>
       <certificates>
         <certificate>
           <name>ex-cert</name>
           <cert-data>base64encodedvalue==</cert-data>
         </certificate>
       </certificates>
     </asymmetric-key>


The name is not visually prevalent in context --> any prefix would be fine...

K.

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