Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 09:28 -0700, Darren J Moffat wrote: >> I'm sponsoring this case for Mark Powers. I'm marking it as Self Review >> since it really only adds new mechanisms to the crypto framework >> doesn't provide any new or changed APIs or change anything for a user, >> developer or administrator. > > what's the case boundary?
Provision of the raw algorithms in the crypto framework. > in particular, is this expected to automatically enable use of > certificates which either contain, or are signed by, an ECC key, or is > additional work to consumers of this interface required beyond plugging > the algorithms in? Updates to KMF maybe required to be able to create and manipulate certificates that have Elliptic Curve keys. As for "applications", say IKE, they need to be aware of an Elliptic Curve cipher suite to be able to use what this case provides. -- Darren J Moffat
