Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-netconf-yang-library-03

Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com> Fri, 19 February 2016 23:07 UTC

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From: Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-ietf-netconf-yang-library-03
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Tom,

How did you want to proceed on this?

> On Feb 15, 2016, at 1:28 PM, Mahesh Jethanandani <mjethanandani@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tom,
> 
> It is not entirely clear from this e-mail, what action you want the authors to take. 
> 
> YANG module information or more like its encodings are sent over a secure session (SSH) and are no more specific to this draft than they are to any NETCONF/RESTCONF session. As such it is not clear what you want  the authors to do. Could you clarify or provide text for the Security Consideration section?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>> On Feb 1, 2016, at 6:03 PM, Tom Yu <tlyu@mit.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>> The Security Considerations of this document seem reasonable.  It might
>> be useful to add a comparison of the risks posed by sensitive
>> information exposed by this YANG module with information exposed by
>> other aspects of NETCONF, or available through methods such as
>> fingerprinting.  Admittedly, a meaningful comparison might be highly
>> context-specific, so a general comparison might have limited utility.

Mahesh Jethanandani
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