Re: [netconf] Does draft-ietf-lwig-curve-representations-19 have any bearing on the NETCONF crypto drafts

[Kent Watsen <[e-mail]>]

Hi Rob,

The closest our work comes is in the "crypt-types" draft itself, where we have "public-key-format" and "private-key-format".  Presumably (after skimming the draft) the same "ECPrivateKey" and "SubjectPublicKeyInfo" ASN.1 structures are used to persist the key.  If so, then no impact, otherwise there may be a need to define other identities from our base "private-ket-format" and/or "public-key-format" identities, which could be done as a future effort (i.e., no need to block current publication).

K.


> On Feb 15, 2021, at 6:31 AM, Rob Wilton (rwilton) <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Kent,
> 
> draft-ietf-lwig-curve-representations-19 is in IESG review, the abstract states:
> 
>   This document specifies how to represent Montgomery curves and
>   (twisted) Edwards curves as curves in short-Weierstrass form and
>   illustrates how this can be used to carry out elliptic curve
>   computations using existing implementations of, e.g., ECDSA and ECDH
>   using NIST prime curves.  We also provide extensive background
>   material that may be useful for implementers of elliptic curve
>   cryptography.
> 
> I just wanted to check whether this draft is relevant to the crypto types work in NETCONF at all (e.g., draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-client-server).  From a quick look, I didn't think that it would have any impact, but thought that I should check.
> 
> Regards,
> Rob
>