Re: [lamps] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com> Tue, 10 July 2018 00:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lamps] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 2:37 PM
> To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>
> Cc: 'The IESG' <iesg@ietf.org>; draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis@ietf.org;
'Russ
> Housley' <housley@vigilsec.com>; lamps-chairs@ietf.org; spasm@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis-10:
> (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 10:18:04AM -0700, Jim Schaad wrote:
> >
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
> > > Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 7:04 AM
> > > To: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>
> > > Cc: draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis@ietf.org; Russ Housley
> > > <housley@vigilsec.com>; lamps-chairs@ietf.org; housley@vigilsec.com;
> > > spasm@ietf.org
> > > Subject: Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on
> > > draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis-10: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
> > >
> > > Benjamin Kaduk has entered the following ballot position for
> > > draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis-10: Discuss
> > >
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> > >
> > > The document, along with other ballot positions, can be found here:
> > > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-lamps-rfc5751-bis/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > --
> > > COMMENT:
> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > --
> > >
> > > Section 2.7.2
> > >
> > > With "Algorithms such as RC2"; "Algorithms such as TripleDES", I'm
> > > not sure what to make of "such as" in these statements -- what are
> > > the attributes that would qualify for sufficient similarity to match
> > > the "such as", other than equality?
> >
> > I would probably put DES in the same category as RC2 and Camellia in the
> same category as TripleDES.  The first category is basically - this is
better than
> nothing but is not secure.  The second category is basically it is not
known to
> be unsecure, but neither is it something that we recommend as using any
> more.  (In this case 64-bit blocks vs 128-bit blocks).
> 
> My question is more, "how do we expect the reader to make these
> classifications?"  You and I can agree on what they should be based on our
> prior experience in the field, but not all readers will share that
background
> information.

I'll be honest, I don't expect readers who are not part of the world of
cryptographic algorithms to make this type of classification.  I expect them
to use the recommendations for what algorithms to use in the document and
leave it at that.  I expect that this explains where things are for those
who do know cryptographic algorithms and thus can understand some of the
differences.

> 
> > > Do we need to cite RFC 6454 for the specific "web origin" concept
> > > (as opposed to just the normal English usage of the word)?
> >
> > At this point in time I don't know that the idea of "web origin" is
> > going to match what is needed for S/MIME.  I would prefer to punt this
> > to a new document which addresses the problem directly
> 
> How would a reader of this document know to look for this hypothetical new
> document?

Given that we can't point to this hypothetical document I don't think we
can.  I think it will get some publicity when it is finally published.  In
the mean time I expect people to slog through the eprint document and need
to go several iterations to understand what is being said their.  They talk
about same origin in that document.

Jim

> 
> 
> Thanks for the updates!
> 
> -Benjamin