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Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Fri, 30 May 2014 22:22 UTC

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Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 15:22:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01
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Hi Joe,
At 13:42 30-05-2014, Joseph Salowey (jsalowey) wrote:
>[Joe] My concern is that there is not enough information in the 
>draft to know what goes into the hash that is the subject of the 
>code point assignment.  Perhaps it is obvious to someone who 
>implemented the SSH code that is not documented in this draft, but 
>it is not obvious to me as a reader of the draft.

That's a fair point.  I propose adding the following text in Section 
2 as a warning to the reader:

   The format of the ED25519 public key with SHA-256 fingerprint is
   not documented in an authoritative specification.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

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