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Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-pkix-pkalgs-supp-01.txt


Steve:

I think the idea is to provide the OIDs and associated syntax for additional public key algorithms. Right now it only has the NTRU algorithms, but others could be added too.

In the S/MIME WG, we have many algorithm documents.  For example:
        Use of the IDEA Encryption Algorithm in CMS
        Use of the CAST-128 Encryption Algorithm in CMS
        Use of the KEA and SKIPJACK Algorithms in CMS
        Use of the AES Encryption Algorithm and RSA-OAEP
                 Key Transport in CMS
        Use of ECC Algorithms in CMS

Perhaps a similar naming approach should be adopted.

Russ

At 12:36 PM 3/7/2002 +0000, Stephen Farrell wrote:


Can someone refresh my memory as to the intent of this draft?

Its called "supplemental algorithms" but only contains details
about ntru related stuff. If its intended to contain other
algorithms, then I'd like to know roughly what they are or when
to expect to see them. If not, then truth-in-advertising would
suggest "s/supplemental/ntru/g".

Thanks,
Stephen.

Internet-Drafts@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) Working Group of the IETF.
>
> Title : Supplemental Algorithms and Identifiers for the
> Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate
> and CRL Profile
> Author(s) : A. Singer, W. Whyte
> Filename : draft-ietf-pkix-pkalgs-supp-01.txt
> Pages : 23
> Date : 05-Mar-02
>
> This document specifies algorithm identifiers and ASN.1 encoding
> formats for digital signatures and subject public keys, including
> NTRUSign digital signatures and NTRUEncrypt and NTRUSign subject
> public keys used in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
> (PKI).
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