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

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 16 August 2017 00:16 UTC

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Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2017 10:16:26 +1000
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Subject: Re: [Webpush] Warren Kumari's No Objection on draft-ietf-webpush-encryption-08: (with COMMENT)
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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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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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)
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> 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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