Moving forward with draft-igoe (Was: Re: applying AES-GCM to secure shell: proposed "tweak")

[Tim Polk <tim.polk@nist.gov>]

Folks,

I have decided to move forward with publication of draft-igoe-secsh- 
aes-gcm, "AES Galois Counter Mode for the Secure Shell Transport Layer  
Protocol", as an Informational RFC.  I have been very pleased by the  
strong interest on this concluded wg list, and encourage people to  
continue discussing a general solution.  If this moves from the  
discussion stage to draft development, I would be delighted to sponsor  
publication of such a draft.

However, I have also concluded based on that discussion that draft- 
igoe-secsh-aes-gcm - in its current form - fills an immediate need.  I  
also do not believe it is the authors' responsibility to develop a  
generic solution (e.g., negotiating whether the length should be  
encrypted).    That said, I will refocus my near term efforts on  
clearing the remaining discuss so that the draft can be published.  I  
do not believe this should impact any long term efforts that result  
from this discussion, and reiterate my support for publication of a  
generic solution.

Thanks,

Tim Polk