I updated the draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey document, the new
version includes some examples in the appendix, including the actual
bits on the wire examples.

One thing that needs to be decided before this document is ready:
"What shall we do with the old "Raw RSA Key" format?"

The current draft keeps it, and RECOMMENDs this new format for all
types of raw keys, and does the negotiation using the standard IKEv2
CERTREQ payloads. This means there is two ways of doing exactly same
thing, i.e. sending Raw RSA keys in IKEv2. 

Another option would be to change this document to be Standard track
document, mark it as Updating 5996, and say that using old "Raw RSA
Key" format is NOT RECOMMENDED. This would mean there is only one way
of sending Raw RSA keys keys in IKEv2, i.e. the new way.

Third option would say that this new format is only used for non-RSA
keys, and for Raw RSA keys, you always MUST use the old format. I do
not like this last option as it would require minimal implementations
to implement both formats, as with both of the above options the
minimal implementation can just decide that it only supports this one
format and uses it for everything.

I would like to get feedback from the WG, which way should we go
forward?

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From: [email protected]
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-01.txt
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 05:40:09 -0700


A new version of I-D, draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-01.txt
has been successfully submitted by Tero Kivinen and posted to the
IETF repository.

Filename:        draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey
Revision:        01
Title:           More Raw Public Keys for IKEv2
Creation date:   2012-10-16
WG ID:           Individual Submission
Number of pages: 8
URL:             
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-01.txt
Status:          
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey
Htmlized:        http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-01
Diff:            
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-kivinen-ipsecme-oob-pubkey-01

Abstract:
   The Internet Key Exchange Version 2 (IKEv2) protocol currently only
   supports raw RSA keys.  In some environments it is useful to make use
   of other types of public keys, such as those based on Elliptic Curve
   Cryptography.  This documents adds support for other types of raw
   public keys to IKEv2.
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