On Wednesday, 2 October 2019 13:18:07 CEST Hubert Kario wrote: > On Tuesday, 1 October 2019 17:01:54 CEST Eric Rescorla wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 5:27 AM John Mattsson <john.mattsson= > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Dan Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > ANSI X9.62-2005 was withdrawn in 2015 > > > > > > Ok, that TLS 1.3 is relying on a withdrawn publication that used to be > > > behind a paywall is even worse. > > > > Ugh. > > > > > > Also, I expect FIPS 186-5 is nearly ready, and will specify much of > > > > > > ECDSA > > > > > > That NIST FIPS 186-5 will include all the details needed to implement > > > ECDSA is great. > > > > > > >IETF has specs for sigs and their formats already, no? > > > > > > At the time when RFC 8446 was published, there was probably no quick and > > > easy solution to the problem. But the fact that IETF has historically > > > been > > > fine with relying on specifications behind paywalls is part of the > > > problem. > > > If IETF had implemented a strong open-access policy a long-time ago, > > > there > > > would probably be an open-access version of ECDSA (NIST or IETF) a long > > > time ago.. > > > > I agree with you about the policy here. To be honest, I just didn't notice > > this; and it would probably need some github spelunking to figure out the > > history of these references. > > > > If someone wanted to propose an erratum that would fix this, I would be > > very appreciative. > > I just did propose an erratum for that.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5868 -- Regards, Hubert Kario Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team Web: www.cz.redhat.com Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 115, 612 00 Brno, Czech Republic
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