Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-07.txt

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Tue, 27 October 2009 16:42 UTC

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Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:23:36 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-07.txt
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 09:23:10AM -0700, Magnus Nyström 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.

Thanks!

> It would have been nice with an example of an authentication mechanism
> using one of the channel bindings in this document, perhaps in the
> form of an illustrative appendix.

I could certainly add a small example, particularly now that SCRAM is
approved for publication.

> Nits:
> 
> -Section 2 should reference RFC 5056, not RFC 5246.

Yes, thanks.  This will be fixed.

> -There should be some spell checking, like "descritption"

As will this.

(I'll look into an XML syntax-aware spell check module for VIM.  If I
had such a thing I'd use it.)

Nico
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