Dear Leif Johansson.

Thanks for your comments.
Please find the answer inline bellows:

BRs,
Younghwan Choi

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From: Leif Johansson via Datatracker <[email protected]> 
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2019 1:35 AM
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Subject: Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-6lo-nfc-13

Reviewer: Leif Johansson
Review result: Has Issues

 I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing 
effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG.  These 
comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. 
 Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other 
last call comments.

I am not a subject matter expert but overall I find the document well written 
and readable. 

YH>> Thanks a lot.

The issue I have is in the security considerations section where I really think 
there should be normative language around the use of permanent identifiers. In 
particular:

"Thus, every single touch connection can use a different short address of NFC 
link with an extremely short-lived link.  This can mitigate address scanning as 
well as location tracking and device-specific vulnerability exploitation."

This is imo too weak. I suggest reformulating this and related text to 
normative language. Given the possible consequences of NFC correlation attacks 
I would have thought that a mandatory requirement on generating different short 
addresses for every link would be a good idea.

YH>> I agree with your comment, so I would like to reformulate the sentences 
like followings:

YH>> "Thus, connections with every single touch between NFC-enabled devices 
MUST use different short addresses with extremely short-lived links. This also 
SHOULD mitigate the NFC correlation attacks, such as address scanning, location 
tracking, and device-specific vulnerability exploitation."

YH>> I will update the draft (-13) with the new sentences if it's ok.
YH>> Thanks again.
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