Re: [stir] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-stir-enhance-rfc8226-03: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Sat, 03 July 2021 18:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [stir] Benjamin Kaduk's Discuss on draft-ietf-stir-enhance-rfc8226-03: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Ben:

> Trimming the bits that look good...
> 
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 11:22:04AM -0400, Russ Housley wrote:
>> Ben:
>> 
>> Turning to the comments ...
>> 
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> COMMENT:
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [...]
>>> Section 7
> [...]
>>>  Certificate issuers should not include an entry in mustExclude for
>>>  the "rcdi" claim for a certificate that will be used with the
>>>  PASSporT Extension for Rich Call Data defined in
>>>  [I-D.ietf-stir-passport-rcd].  Excluding this claim would prevent the
>>>  integrity protection mechanism from working properly.
>>> 
>>> I'd consider prefacing this paragraph with something like "For example",
>>> as otherwise one might wonder why this particular claim is so important
>>> to call out in this document's security considerations.
>> 
>> Rob asked for SHOULD NOT.  And if you look at the structure in [I-D.ietf-stir-passport-rcd], the integrity really does depend on this claim.
> 
> Yes, it's clear that the integrity of RCD does depend on the claim in
> question.
> It's less clear that enhance-rfc8226 is the best place to make that
> restriction, which could also be imposed by draft-ietf-stir-passport-rcd
> itself.  In short, "why is this claim so important that it gets called out
> by name in an otherwise generic specification?".
> 
> What's in the document now is factually correct, so I don't mind having it
> there; it just seems a little surprising to call out one specific external
> claim and not say why only that one is mentioned.

That was my reason for the original wording.  However, as you say, having both this document and draft=ietf-stir-passport-rcd make this statement is not really a problem.

Russ