Re: New Version Notification for draft-green-secsh-ecc-07

[Douglas Stebila <douglas@stebila.ca>]

I will clarify the language and URLs concerning the relevant documents  
before it goes to RFC.  Thanks all.

Douglas


On 2009-Jun-2, at 2:04 PM, der Mouse wrote:

> > > Has anyone here tried to implement [draft-green-secsh-ecc]?
> > > I'd like to, but it appears unimplementable without copies of X9.63
> > > and IEEE1363, [...]
> > ANSI X9.63 and IEEE 1363 are listed as informative references only.
> > I believe that SEC 1, listed as a normative reference, contains all
> > information required to implement ECDH, ECDSA, and ECMQV; it is
> > freely available from the URL in the references.
>
> Actually, it is not; it is at least two and I think three links  
> removed
> from the URL in the references.  (The shortest path I've found is
> http://www.secg.org/ -> "Documents" ->
> http://www.secg.org/index.php?action=secg,docs_home -> "Released
> Standards" -> http://www.secg.org/?action=secg,docs_secg -> "SEC1:
> Elliptic Curve Cryptography version 2.0" ->
> http://www.secg.org/download/aid-780/sec1-v2.pdf.)
>
> > Is there something specific that you believe requires ANSI X9.63 or
> > IEEE 1363, or some wording that I should clarify?
>
> That was the impression I was left with by the text
>
>   Implementation of this specification requires familiarity with both
>   SSH [RFC4251] [RFC4253] [RFC4250] and ECC [SEC1] [IEEE1363]
>   [ANSI-X9.63].
>
>   This document is concerned with SSH implementation details;
>   specification of the underlying cryptographic algorithms is left to
>   other standards documents.
>
> Rereading in light of what you said, I can see that it doesn't quite
> say that X9.63 and 1363 are necessary; the wording of that section
> might be improvable - perhaps a note in the second of those paragraphs
> that [SEC1] is believed sufficient for implementation?
>
> I'll try to get around to slogging through converting [SEC1] (which
> appears to be provided only as another of those damned PDFs) into
> something usable, and see what I can do with it.  (I've found software
> that can mostly convert PDFs to text, but it's...well, it's got few
> edges that _aren't_ rough, at the moment.)
>
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