[secdir] Secdir review of draft-hansen-scram-sha256-04

Vincent Roca <vincent.roca@inria.fr> Tue, 01 September 2015 08:09 UTC

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Hello,

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.


IMHO, the document is ready.

Just a minor comment: it is said in the Security Considerations section that:
	«an iteration count of 4096 takes around 0.5 seconds on current mobile handsets.»
It may be useful to give an idea of the features of a representative «current mobile handset».
It can simplify comparisons in a few years from now as things are evolving quite rapidly in this
domain.

Cheers,

  Vincent