Re: V3 secret keys

[Ben Laurie <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Ian G <iang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> Ben Laurie wrote:
>>> Obviously the I-D should be updated to reflect this (and clearly no-one
>>> has ever implemented v3 keys from it).
>> (I'm not qualified to rewrite the draft on that issue.)
> 
> Why not just include the pseudocode (or more usefully straight C code) for
> the operation?  That's the ultimate definitive description, any programmer
> can understand it, and you don't run into the problems you do with the
> english description.
> 
> (Even if an implementer doesn't understand it, they can always just cut &
> paste the code).

Isn't there some dumb IETF rule against that?

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