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Re: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC2631 (5954)

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Fri, 10 January 2020 01:42 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, Ben Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
CC: "Roman D. Danyliw" <rdd@cert.org>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, "silversplash@gmx.com" <silversplash@gmx.com>, "paul.hoffman@vpnc.org" <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org>, IETF SMIME <smime@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC2631 (5954)
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2020 01:41:56 +0000
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Subject: Re: [smime] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC2631 (5954)
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Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> writes:

>It sounds like Hold for Document Update is the best way to handle this one.

The urgency would also depend on what's affected by it, since it only affects
FIPS 186-style keys which AFAIK nothing uses for DH, everything uses PKCS #3
keys with g=2 (see e.g. RFC 2409, RFC 3526, and RFC 7919).

Peter.

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