Re: [secdir] Review of

[Derek Atkins <[e-mail]>]

"Hilarie Orman" <[e-mail]> writes:

> Camellia Cipher Suites for TLS
> draft-kato-tls-rfc4132bis-04
>
> Do not be alarmed.  I have reviewed this document as part of the
> security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents
> being processed by the IESG.  These comments were written primarily
> for the benefit of the security area directors.  Document editors and
> WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call
> comments.
>
> The document is intended to define identifiers for 12 new
> ciphersuites for TLS.  The suites are duplicates of
> existing ones, except that they use HMAC-SHA-256 instead of
> HMAC-SHA.  The suites are restricted to implementations
> of TLS 1.2 and later.
>
> The only oddity in the document is that the identifiers for the new
> suites are TBD.  The document states:
>
>  "IANA is requested to allocate (has allocated) the following numbers
>  in the TLS Cipher Suite Registry:"
>
> Are the authors supposed to submit the document and update the numbers
> per IANA advice at some later time?  The wording indicates some
> confusion over this point.

The IANA Considerations are written so that it reads correctly before
and after IANA processes the request.  The RFC-Editor will work with
IANA and fill in the correct values once it's been processed, so I don't
think this should be a major concern.

> Hilarie

-derek

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