* William Allen Simpson: > Quoting "Photuris: Design Criteria", LNCS, Springer-Verlag, 1999: > > The hallmark of successful Internet protocols is that they are > relatively simple. This aids in analysis of the protocol design, > improves implementation interoperability, and reduces operational > considerations. > > Compare with Photuris [RFC-2522], where undergraduate (Keromytis) and > graduate (Spatscheck, Provos) students independently were able to > complete interoperable implementations (in their spare time) in a > month or so....
Photuris uses a baroque variable-length integer encoding similar to that of OpenPGP, a clear warning sign. 8-/ The protocol also contains nested containers which may specify conflicting lengths. This is one common source of parser bugs. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]