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Re: [TLS] Working Group interest draft-merkle-tls-brainpool-00

Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> Wed, 03 April 2013 00:11 UTC

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To: "Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)" <jsalowey@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group interest draft-merkle-tls-brainpool-00
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"Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)" <jsalowey@cisco.com> writes:

> The authors of draft-merkle-tls-brainpool-00.txt have requested that
> the working group take on this work.  I'm not sure if there is
> sufficient interest to bring this into the working group.  If you are
> interested in this work please send a note to the list indicating if
> you can be counted on for reviews and/or text changes a necessary.  If
> you think the working group should not take on this work please state
> why.  Please respond by April 22, 2013.

I support taking on this work.  I did a quick review and noticed this:

OLD:
   Usage of elliptic curves for authentication and key agreement in TLS
   1.1 and TLS 2.0 is defined in [RFC4492].  While the ASN.1 object
     ^         ^^^
NEW.
   Usage of elliptic curves for authentication and key agreement in TLS
   1.0 and TLS 1.1 is defined in [RFC4492].  While the ASN.1 object
     ^         ^^^

/Simon

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