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

2014-05-31 06:03:10
On 31 May 2014 08:21, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf(_at_)elandsys(_dot_)com> wrote:
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This draft is related to cryptography.  It is difficult to find people
with the necessary expertise to review drafts about cryptography.


Cryptography expertise not required.


The reason for this work is get a code point assignment that requires IETF
Consensus.


This attitude of yours also not required


 The assignment does not negatively impact interoperability or otherwise
extend IETF protocols in an inappropriate or damaging manner

 .
but it will if opinions vary about how to construct the fingerprint.

Compare and contrast your document with RFC4255 which defines the data to
be hashed by reference to RFC4253.