Re: [Webpush] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: (with COMMENT)

Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> Wed, 16 August 2017 00:19 UTC

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From: Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net>
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:19:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: (with COMMENT)
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Awesome, thank you, LGTM.

W

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Martin Thomson
<martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Warren,
>
> I resolved your nits here:
>   https://github.com/webpush-wg/webpush-encryption/pull/19
>
> On 16 August 2017 at 03:59, Warren Kumari <warren@kumari.net> wrote:
>> Warren Kumari has entered the following ballot position for
>> draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: No Objection
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>> COMMENT:
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>> Firstly, thanks to Tim Chown for his helpful OpsDir review (
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/review-ietf-webpush-encryption-08-opsdir-lc-chown-2017-08-01/
>> ) and for your response.
>>
>> I only have nits on this document:
>> 1:  I reviewed this and draft-ietf-webpush-vapid together. This document uses
>> title case for "User Agent" (and many other terms), while
>> draft-ietf-webpush-vapid and RFC8030 uses lower-case. Consistency would be nice
>> here.
>>
>> 2: Section 2:
>> "In addition to the reasons described in [I-D.ietf-webpush-protocol], this
>> ensures that the authentication secret is not revealed to unauthorized
>> entities, which can be used to generate push messages that will be accepted by
>> the User Agent." -- this is ambiguous / confusing. It is unclear which which is
>> which. I'd suggest rewording to something like "... to unauthorized entities,
>> which would allow that entities to generate push messages that would be
>> accepted by the User Agent as valid" (or similar)
>>
>> 3: Section 7.  Security Considerations
>> "In particular, any HTTP header fields are not protected by the content
>> encoding scheme." -- I think you may mean "In particular, no HTTP header fields
>> are protected ..." (or similar)
>>
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