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

Dick Franks <rwfranks@acm.org> Sat, 31 May 2014 01:28 UTC

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On 31 May 2014 01:18, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> At 15:42 30-05-2014, Stephen Farrell wrote:
>
>> Why? Why not just look at the code and write down what that does
>> in terms of formatting the input.
>>
>> If >1 implementation interoperates it can't be that hard.
>>
>
> I had some private discussions about what the source code does to see how
> to turn that into a specification.  The conclusion was that it would be
> non-trivial to write down something acceptable to the IETF.


If it is non-trivial to extract the data format from the code, it is
essential that it be included here or incorporated by reference to a freely
available public document.


 If it was not that hard everybody would be able to do it. :-)


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