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Re: [TLS] (offline) Re: Draft for SM cipher suites used in TLS1.3

Paul Yang <kaishen.yy@alipay.com> Mon, 19 August 2019 14:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] (offline) Re: Draft for SM cipher suites used in TLS1.3
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> On Aug 18, 2019, at 9:47 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> 
> The intent of the "Specification Required" requirement for registration is that sufficient public information be available to allow an interoperable implementation. Specifically, the text says:
> 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8126#section-4.6 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8126#section-4.6>
> 
>    For the Specification Required policy, review and approval by a
>    designated expert (see Section 5) is required, and the values and
>    their meanings must be documented in a permanent and readily
>    available public specification, in sufficient detail so that
>    interoperability between independent implementations is possible.
>    This policy is the same as Expert Review, with the additional
>    requirement of a formal public specification.  In addition to the
>    normal review of such a request, the designated expert will review
>    the public specification and evaluate whether it is sufficiently
>    stable and permanent, and sufficiently clear and technically sound to
>    allow interoperable implementations.
> 
> I don't think that a for-pay specification meets that threshold, though I'm
> not aware of any IETF-wide policy on that (although I may just have missed
> it).

Makes sense, so we added new public documents now ;-)

Just one question, do implementations count as the ‘public specification’? For instance, something like the crypto libraries which support the algorithms with full documentation describing it...

> 
> In the absence of that, it would as stated above, be on the Expert to determine
> the standard.
> 
> -Ekr
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, Aug 18, 2019 at 2:52 PM Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com <mailto:rsalz@akamai.com>> wrote:
> 
> Ø  This is one example: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8428.txt <https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8428.txt>
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> That is a bit different since RNC isn’t needed to implement the RFC, and a web search for “relaxng” finds thousands of references.  The SM2, etc., situation is different because you cannot implement the cipher without the definition of it.
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Regards,

Paul Yang

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