Re: [secdir] Secdir Review of draft-ietf-netconf-rfc5539bis-09

t.p. <daedulus@btconnect.com> Tue, 10 March 2015 14:18 UTC

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From: "Sam Hartman" <hartmans-ietf@mit.edu>
To: "t.p." <daedulus@btconnect.com>
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> >>>>> "t" == t p <daedulus@btconnect.com> writes:
>
> Well, I think you still need to answer questions like
>
> * Is it a fingerprint of the cert or the key?
>
> * Is the server expected to re-normalize the DER?    Allowed to
>   re-normalize the DER?

Sam

Thank you for your comments.

The I-D specifies fingerprint of the certificate so that is specified.

Normalisation is not specified and is an interesting point; as you say,
something to be considered.

Tom Petch

> So that the input to the hash is well specified.
> Several protocols within the IETF have taken on the challenge of
> describing how to fingerprint certificates.  I think the document
would
> be improved by picking one of these strategies.
>