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Re: [sidr] Alexey Melnikov's No Objection on draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-algs-16: (with COMMENT)

Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm> Sat, 10 December 2016 13:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sidr] Alexey Melnikov's No Objection on draft-ietf-sidr-bgpsec-algs-16: (with COMMENT)
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> On 10 Dec 2016, at 12:40, Sean Turner <sean@sn3rd.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 10, 2016, at 06:50, Alexey Melnikov <aamelnikov@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe I missed it, but I don't think the document is clear on why new
>> algorithms are needed. Is this specified in one of referenced documents?
> 
> I think you’re asking why different algorithms are needed to those specified for the rest of the RPKI?  If that’s the case, it’s key/sig size to keep the protocol smaller than if we used RSA/RSA-PSS and that’s covered in RFC 5480.  

Thank you, Sean. Maybe the document should have a sentence on this.

> If you’re asking about why would somebody want to define different algorithms for BGPsec then it's discovered weaknesses, vanity :), etc.

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