Re: [sasl] WGLC on draft-ietf-kitten-digest-to-historic-00

Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov@isode.com> Mon, 09 August 2010 08:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sasl] WGLC on draft-ietf-kitten-digest-to-historic-00
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Simon Josefsson wrote:

>I have re-read the document and this version looks good to me.  Two
>comments below.
>
>1)
>
>I believe the document should contain a pointer to SCRAM, RFC 5802.
>Then readers will understand that they are supposed to be implementing
>SCRAM instead of DIGEST-MD5.  I suggest adding at the end of section 1:
>
>  The SCRAM mechanism [RFC 5802] has been developed to provide similar
>  features as DIGEST-MD5 but with a better design.
>
>2)
>
>In section 1, I would add the following bullet under 8:
>
>  C.  The DES cipher for the security layer is considered insecure
>      due to its small key space.
>
I am happy to add these. Tim Polk also suggested 1) to me verbally.