Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-kuegler-ipsecme-pace-ikev2

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Thu, 14 April 2011 21:13 UTC

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From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-kuegler-ipsecme-pace-ikev2
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So, I'm embarrassed.  Please ignore all my earlier comments on this.

Having read the paper, and the sections I'd missed in the I-D, I
believe this document is fine.  There's no need for salting nor
iteration counts in a ZKPP like this (though an augmented version
would require salting, and preferably also iteration counts, so as to
slow down dictionary attacks on verifiers should the verifiers be
lost).

Nico
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