Hello Malisa

Speaking for myself here, I'm happy that you start on that direction already; 
but would like to see the edhoc group formed and progressing before committing 
fully to it.

All the best,

Pascal

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 6tisch <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mališa Vucinic
> Sent: mardi 2 avril 2019 14:55
> To: Michael Richardson <[email protected]>
> Cc: 6tisch <[email protected]>
> Subject: [6tisch] Progress zero-touch document
> 
> Michael, all,
> 
> With the EDHOC specification finally seeing progress (see [1]), it seems like 
> a
> good time to restart the work on zero touch and progress the adopted working
> group document.
> 
> Reading the current version of 
> draft-ietf-6tisch-dtsecurity-zerotouch-join-03, it
> seems that there are many options available, including the choice between
> DTLS and EDHOC for authentication. Many available options may pose
> interoperability challenges and also add unnecessary code complexity. Given
> that the working group decided on using OSCORE during network access [2], as
> well as for application purposes [3], the implementation of the 6TiSCH stack
> includes the CBOR/COSE primitives in the footprint, as well as the support to
> go through an application-layer proxy as specified in [2]. EDHOC protocol is
> built on these primitives, can be easily carried within messages specified in 
> [2]
> for network access to go through an application-layer proxy, and is quite
> efficient when it comes to the encoding overhead using CBOR resulting in a
> small number of L2 frames to complete the key exchange. It seems as a natural
> way forward for the working group to focus on using EDHOC in [4].
> 
> Therefore, I would like to propose to keep track of the EDHOC progress and to
> work on a more streamlined zero-touch solution. Doing these changes in [4]
> seems to make the most sense at this point.
> 
> What are your thoughts on this?
> 
> Mališa
> 
> [1]
> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdispatch/Kz_6y6Jq4HsWxglsUHafWj
> XIm0c
> [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6tisch-minimal-security/
> [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6tisch-architecture/
> [4] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-6tisch-dtsecurity-zerotouch-
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