I find Tero's figure easier to understand, more "illustrative". This is
obviously very subjective.
Yaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
> Of [email protected]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 20:12
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [IPsec] IKEv2bis Issue #157
>
> At Wed, 3 Feb 2010 17:20:20 +0200, Yoav Nir wrote:
> > Hi all.
> >
> > 5 more issues.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
> > Issue #157 - Illustrate the SA payload with a diagram
> > =====================================================
> > The text in 3.3 requires "peace of mind" to fully appreciate.
> > A diagram might be helpful.
> >
> > ...
>
> If line formating limits hurt, you might consider to
> "mirror the figure at the lower diagonal", i.e. give it
> a look & feel like an asn1dump without the hex data,
> or -- the ToC of the draft ! :-)
>
> Here's a sketch in terse notation:
>
> SA Payload
> Proposal #1 ( Proto ID = ESP(3), SPI size = 4,
> 7 transforms, SPI = 0x95903423 )
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC )
> Attribute ( Key Length = 128 )
> Transform INTEG ( Name = AUTH_HMAC_SHA1_96 )
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC )
> Attribute ( Key Length = 192 )
> Transform INTEG ( Name = AUTH_XCBC_96 )
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC )
> Attribute ( Key Length = 256 )
> Transform ESN ( Name = No ESNs )
> Transform ESN ( Name = ESNs )
> Proposal #2 ( Proto ID = ESP(3), SPI size = 4,
> 4 transforms, SPI = 0x12345678 )
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_GCM w/ 8-octet ICV )
> Attribute ( Key Length = 128 )
> Transform ESN ( Name = No ESNs )
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_GCM w/ 8-octet ICV )
> Attribute ( Key Length = 256 )
> Transform ESN ( Name = ESNs )
>
> Alternatively, curly braces could be added for double clarity
> (you might also leave these off at lower levels):
>
> SA Payload {
> Proposal #1 ( Proto ID = ESP(3), SPI size = 4,
> 7 transforms, SPI = 0x95903423 ) {
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC ) {
> Attribute ( Key Length = 128 )
> }
> Transform INTEG ( Name = AUTH_HMAC_SHA1_96 ) { }
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC ) {
> Attribute ( Key Length = 192 )
> }
> Transform INTEG ( Name = AUTH_XCBC_96 ) { }
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_CBC ) {
> Attribute ( Key Length = 256 )
> }
> Transform ESN ( Name = No ESNs ) { }
> Transform ESN ( Name = ESNs ) { }
> }
> Proposal #2 ( Proto ID = ESP(3), SPI size = 4,
> 4 transforms, SPI = 0x12345678 ) {
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_GCM w/ 8-octet ICV ) {
> Attribute ( Key Length = 128 )
> }
> Transform ESN ( Name = No ESNs ) { }
> Transform ENCR ( Name = ENCR_AES_GCM w/ 8-octet ICV ) {
> Attribute ( Key Length = 256 )
> }
> Transform ESN ( Name = ESNs ) { }
> }
> }
>
> Many variations are possible.
>
> Note that in the diagram in Yoav's message, the representation of
> transform type 5 is not consistent with the remainder of the figure;
> above, I have left off the code point (number) assigned to the ESN
> transform names -- in the same way as for the other transform types.
>
>
> Kind regards,
> Alfred.
>
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