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Re: [saag] [Trans] draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-00

Stephen Kent <kent@bbn.com> Tue, 08 April 2014 18:33 UTC

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Ben,

> On 8 April 2014 15:18, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
>>>> I do not understand why metadata is more secure then the data itself.
>>> It is created by a different authority.
>> ?  Is this in the part of the RFC that is still TBD?
> The RFC describes how logs work and how clients work. It does not
> describe how clients decide what logs they are prepared to accept. I
> am not sure it should.
It may be OK to separate the discussions, but there needs to be an 
architecture
doc that does address these questions. I fact I think it needs to 
precede the
details that the current doc addresses.

Steve

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