Comments in-line. > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Gray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 11:20 AM > To: Luther Martin; Mark Schertler > Cc: Tim Polk; [email protected] > Subject: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms-07.txt > > 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: > ======= > > This draft is almost ready for publishing as a Proposed Standard. > > I have some questions and comments below. > > Comments: > ======== > > 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?
Changed to reflect this comment. > > 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? Changed to reflect this comment. > ________________________________________________________________ > > [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) > _________________________________________________________________ > Changed to reflect this comment. > > NITs: > ==== > > 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). Changed to reflect this comment. _______________________________________________ Gen-art mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/gen-art
