Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-curdle-gss-keyex-sha2-07

Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> Thu, 03 January 2019 12:35 UTC

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On Tuesday, 1 January 2019 21:33:31 CET David Mandelberg wrote:
> On 1/1/19 9:06 AM, Simo Sorce wrote:
> > On Mon, 2018-12-31 at 14:57 -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:
> >> Section 5.1: When calculating H, are the boundaries between each
> >> concatenated thing clear? E.g., would V_C = "1.21" V_S = "0.1" and V_C =
> >> "1.2" V_S = "10.1" result in the same value for H?
> > 
> > All else equal I think it would
> 
> Ok. I don't have any specific attacks in mind, but that seems like a
> potential weak point. This probably isn't the right document to change
> that in though.

yes, we actually considered also making the key exchange secure against 
quantum computer attacks, but decided to favour ease of implementation as more 
important; thus the resulting minimal changes compared to RFC 4462

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Hubert Kario
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