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Re: [tcpinc] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Fri, 30 November 2018 00:57 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 16:56:24 -0800
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To: Daniel B Giffin <dbg@scs.stanford.edu>
Cc: tcpinc <tcpinc@ietf.org>, Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>, tcpinc-chairs@ietf.org, mazieres-nj788xtv7k4q4yq2nedg4eupms@temporary-address.scs.stanford.edu, "Black, David" <David.Black@dell.com>, IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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SGTM.

-Ekr


On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 10:41 AM Daniel B Giffin <dbg@scs.stanford.edu>
wrote:

> Okay, how about this language that harmonizes with the SSL
> approach:
>
>   Key-agreement schemes ECDHE-Curve25519 and ECDHE-Curve448
>   perform the Diffie-Helman protocol using the functions
>   X25519 and X448, respectively.  Implementations SHOULD
>   compute these functions using the algorithms described in
>   RFC7748.  When they do so, implementations MUST check
>   whether the computed Diffie-Hellman shared secret is the
>   all-zero value and abort if so, as described in Section 6
>   of RFC7748.  Alternative implementations of these
>   functions SHOULD abort when either input would force the
>   output to one of a small set of values, as discussed in
>   Section 7 of RFC7748.
>
> That last sentence is explicit (or as explicit as practical
> in the scope of this document) because I really can't find
> any *instruction* in Section 7 about input checking.
>
> d
>
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