Re: [Cfrg] DNSSEC considering adopting GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.11-94

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

At Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:26:07 +0400,
Basil Dolmatov wrote:
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> Paul Hoffman ?????:
> >
> Hi Paul,
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> > And herein lies a problem. The GOST specs are in Russian. I do not believe that there are any official English translations, 
> > and that the unofficial ones are expensive. (I would love to be wrong about either of those statements.) 
>  >I have Cc' the author of the relevant draft on this message so he can 
> help.
> 
> Because of expensiveness of existing translations I can only "lend" my 
> copies for the purpose of review by professionals, members of Cfrg, 
> provided these copies will never made publicly available on the Internet 
> or distributed by any other means to other people/enterprises except 
> those who have got it from me directly.
> 
> Those, who are willing to lend a copy can address me via e-mail.

Shouldn't reliance on a non-public spec pretty much be a dealbreaker
for standardization of an algorithm?

-Ekr