Re: [woes] Proposed charter, post-Quebec edition

Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam@gmail.com> Sat, 06 August 2011 14:04 UTC

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We absolutely need to make a choice on algorithms.

What I am saying is that I would like to make the choice once every three
years or so as an IETF-wide issue and not have to revisit it in every new WG
and have each WG go through the same discussion.

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Jeremy Laurenson <jlaurens@cisco.com>wrote:

> From a Javascript dev perspective, specifying an algorithm will make it a
> hell of of lot easier to implement, instead of having to potentially account
> for multiples.
>
> Lets use the example of a web app that aggregates social media data - just
> for giggles - and uses WOES to secure the communications to well-defined
> interfaces
>
> If multiple vendors' websites implement WOES/JOES/JOSE with different
> algorithms, it becomes more complex vs a single, consistent one.
>
>
>
>
> On Aug 5, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Sean Turner wrote:
>
> > So I'll bite on this ;)
> >
> > I think we can write the spec to require a particular algorithm choice,
> but it might make more sense to define the options and then allow the
> environment in which the solution will be used to specify it's requirements.
>  But, I believe that is a discussion we'll have while writing the spec.
> >
> > spt
> >
> > On 8/4/11 9:29 AM, John Bradley wrote:
> >> HMAC is requirement for adoption in the JWS use cases.
> >>
> >> If we want to describe it as something other than a "Qualified Digital
> >> Signature", that is fine as long as it is MTI:)
> >>
> >> John B.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 2011-08-04, at 9:12 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:03 AM, Sean Turner <turners@ieca.com
> >>> <mailto:turners@ieca.com>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>    On 8/2/11 7:13 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >>>
> >>>        Here is a proposal for the charter based on the discussion in
> >>>        the BoF last week and later discussion with Sean Turner.
> >>>        Comments, praise, scorn, etc., are welcome.
> >>>
> >>>        --Paul and Richard
> >>>
> >>>        Javascript Object Signing and Encrypting (jose)
> >>>        ==============================__=================
> >>>
> >>>        Background
> >>>        ----------
> >>>
> >>>        Javascript Object Notation (JSON) is a text format for the
> >>>        serialization of structured data described in RFC 4627. The
> >>>        JSON format is often used for serializing and transmitting
> >>>        structured data over a network connection. With the increased
> >>>        usage of JSON in protocols in the IETF and elsewhere, there is
> >>>        now a desire to offer security services such as encryption and
> >>>        digital signatures for data that is being carried in JSON
> format.
> >>>
> >>>        Different proposals for providing such security services have
> >>>        already been defined and implemented. This Working Group's
> >>>        task is to standardize two security services, encrypting and
> >>>        digitally signing, in order to increase interoperability of
> >>>        security features between protocols that use JSON. The Working
> >>>        Group will base its work on well-known message security
> >>>        primitives (e.g., CMS), and will solicit input from the rest
> >>>        of the IETF Security Area to be sure that the security
> >>>        functionality in the JSON format is correct.
> >>>
> >>>        This group is chartered to work on four documents:
> >>>
> >>>        1) A Standards Track document specifying how to apply a
> >>>        JSON-structured digital signature to data, including (but not
> >>>        limited to) JSON data structures. "Digital signature" is
> >>>        defined as a hash operation followed by a signature operation
> >>>        using asymmetric keys.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>    I just want to make sure that we agree now that a digital
> >>>    signature is a hash followed by a signature algorithm (e.g., RSA
> >>>    with SHA-256). I've seen a couple of drafts that tried to say an
> >>>    HMAC (e.g., HMAC-SHA256) was a digital signature; one called it a
> >>>    symmetric key based digital signature algorithm (note this phrase
> >>>    didn't get through the IESG).
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> An HMAC is not a digital signature, but the spec definitely needs to
> >>> be able to cover MAC based authentication.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I know that public key is getting easier as far as computation goes.
> >>> But for many applications the non-repudiation you get in digital
> >>> signatures is actually undesirable.
> >>>
> >>> There are interesting tricks you can do with symmetric crypto that are
> >>> much harder to do in public key and end up with some scheme that only
> >>> 50 academics in the world can follow and has a security proof that
> >>> rest on rather esoteric assumptions.
> >>>
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