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Re: [TLS] Erik Kline's No Objection on draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-guidance-04: (with COMMENT)

Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com> Wed, 22 December 2021 05:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Erik Kline's No Objection on draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-guidance-04: (with COMMENT)
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> [S4; nit]
> 
> * s/quantum computes/quantum computers/?
> 
> [S4.2; nit]
> 
> * "including, for example, including ..." -> "including, for example, ..."
> 
> [S5.2; nit]
> 
> * "or even less number of buttons" -> "or even fewer buttons", perhaps
> 
> * "baked into or hardware or software" -> "baked into hardware or software"

All of these are fixed.

> [S5.3; question]
> 
> * What does "routable" mean in an identities context?  Perhaps there is
>  some simpler rewording that preserves the essential meaning (or maybe
>  this is well-understood and I'm just not up to speed yet).
> 
>  I could not find "rout"-stemmed words in draft-mattsson-emu-eap-tls-psk.

draft-mattsson-emu-eap-tls-psk says:

   The TLS PSK identity is typically derived by the TLS
   implementation and may be an opaque blob without a routable realm.

The realm portion of the identity is used to select to proper server to handle EAP.

> [S8; nit]
> 
> * s/beynond/beyond/

Fixed.

Russ

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