At Mon, 26 Nov 2007 11:18:42 +0100,
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> 
> On 25 nov 2007, at 22:51, Jari Arkko wrote:
> 
> > Eric is right that HBA does not appear to buy much additional value  
> > over
> > CGAs. On the other hand, HBAs are very easy to support if you already
> > support CGAs; and some people seem to think shared-key only crypto is
> > helpful. You might disagree with that assessment, but it was the WG's
> > decision. I do not personally feel a need to prevent them for  
> > including
> > this support.
> 
> There are two differences:
> 
> - both generating and checking public key signatures is more expensive  
> than just hashes

Yes, it is, but as I said in my initial review, I don't see any
real evidence that these are limiting factors in any practical
setting. Premature optimization is one of the most common tropes
in cryptographic protocol engineering.


> - for CGA, a host needs to store a private key somehwere, with HBA  
> there are no secrets

I don't really see the relevance of this.

-Ekr


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