IANA Registration of Trustword Lists: Guide, Template and IANA Considerations
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Network Working Group                                       B. Hoeneisen
Internet-Draft                                                H. Marques
Intended status: Standards Track                          pEp Foundation
Expires: July 12, 2020                                  January 09, 2020

     IANA Registration of Trustword Lists: Guide, Template and IANA
                             Considerations
                      draft-birk-pep-trustwords-05

Abstract

   This document specifies the IANA Registration Guidelines for
   Trustwords, describes corresponding registration procedures, and
   provides a guideline for creating Trustword list specifications.

   Trustwords are common words in a natural language (e.g., English),
   which hexadecimal strings are mapped to.  Such a mapping makes
   verification processes like fingerprint comparisons more practical,
   and less prone to misunderstandings.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
     1.1.  Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     1.2.  Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   2.  The Concept of Trustword Mapping  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.1.  Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.2.  Previous work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
     2.3.  Number of Trustwords for a language . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.4.  Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.5.  The nature of the words . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   3.  Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   4.  Privacy Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
   5.  IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     5.1.  Registration Template (XML chunk) . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     5.2.  IANA Registration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.2.1.  Language Code (<languagecode>)  . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.2.2.  Bit Size (<bitsize>)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.2.3.  Number Of Unique Words (<numberofuniquewords>)  . . .   8
       5.2.4.  Bijectivity (<bijective>) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.2.5.  Version (<version>) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
       5.2.6.  Registration Document(s) (<registrationdocs>) . . . .   9
       5.2.7.  Requesters (<requesters>) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
       5.2.8.  Further Information (<additionalinfo>)  . . . . . . .   9
       5.2.9.  Wordlist (<wordlist>) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   6.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
   7.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     7.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  10
     7.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
   Appendix A.  IANA XML Template Example  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  12
   Appendix B.  Document Changelog . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
   Appendix C.  Open Issues  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  15

1.  Introduction

   In public-key cryptography, comparing the respective public key
   fingerprints for each of the communication partners involved is vital
   to ensure that there is no Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attack on the
   communication channel.  These fingerprints normally consist of a