Authors,
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART)
reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see
http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html).
Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments
you may receive.
Document:
"Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based
encryption algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax"
(draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt)
Reviewer: Eric Gray
Review Date: 10/25/2007
IETF LC End Date: 10/25/2007
Summary:
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This draft is almost ready for publishing as a Proposed Standard.
I have some questions and comments below.
Comments:
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Question: In the second bullet, of section 1.2 on page 3, what
does the expression "secure distribution" mean? Is the PPS an
authenticate-able source, does it only distribute the "publicly
sharable cryptographic material" to authenticated recipients or
does it use secure connections in the distribution process?
>From the discussion in section 7.1 (second paragraph), it looks
as if a PPS is an authenticate-able source. Should this be
stated more clearly?
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[DER] is listed as an informative reference, yet text on page
5 says -
"the structure MUST be DER encoded [DER] ..."
This should warrant a Normative reference, since it seems it
is necessary to have this information in order to implement
the step described in this text.
A similar argument can be made for each of the following:
ASN1 (see reference toward the top of page 3)
IBCS (see references at the top of page 8)
IBE (see - in particular - process step references -
section 4, bullet 1, page 7
section 5, bullets 3 through 5, page 8)
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NITs:
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There are format problems (premature line-wrap) that should be
fixed prior to publication (this probably can be handled as an
RFC Editor's note). See, for example, numbered bullets on page
6 (number 2 in the first set, and number 4 in the second).
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