Re: [secdir] secdir review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01

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I reject S. Moonesamy's proposal, and strongly support Stephen's recommendation.

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> On May 30, 2014, at 18:42, Stephen Farrell <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 30/05/14 23:22, S Moonesamy wrote:
>> Hi Joe,
>> At 13:42 30-05-2014, Joseph Salowey (jsalowey) wrote:
>>> [Joe] My concern is that there is not enough information in the draft
>>> to know what goes into the hash that is the subject of the code point
>>> assignment.  Perhaps it is obvious to someone who implemented the SSH
>>> code that is not documented in this draft, but it is not obvious to me
>>> as a reader of the draft.
>> 
>> That's a fair point.  I propose adding the following text in Section 2
>> as a warning to the reader:
>> 
>>  The format of the ED25519 public key with SHA-256 fingerprint is
>>  not documented in an authoritative specification.
> 
> Why? Why not just look at the code and write down what that does
> in terms of formatting the input.
> 
> If >1 implementation interoperates it can't be that hard.
> 
> S.
> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> S. Moonesamy 






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