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Telechat Review of draft-ietf-drip-arch-24
review-ietf-drip-arch-24-secdir-telechat-smyslov-2022-06-20-00

Request Review of draft-ietf-drip-arch
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 31)
Type Telechat Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2022-06-28
Requested 2022-06-13
Authors Stuart W. Card , Adam Wiethuechter , Robert Moskowitz , Shuai Zhao , Andrei Gurtov
I-D last updated 2022-06-20
Completed reviews Secdir Last Call review of -22 by Valery Smyslov (diff)
Iotdir Last Call review of -22 by Thomas Fossati (diff)
Genart Last Call review of -22 by Roni Even (diff)
Tsvart Last Call review of -22 by Kyle Rose (diff)
Intdir Telechat review of -24 by Dave Thaler (diff)
Secdir Telechat review of -24 by Valery Smyslov (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Valery Smyslov
State Completed
Request Telechat review on draft-ietf-drip-arch by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Posted at https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/t2xTW6MfLdvXwSkMx3SugJYhrEc
Reviewed revision 24 (document currently at 31)
Result Has nits
Completed 2022-06-20
review-ietf-drip-arch-24-secdir-telechat-smyslov-2022-06-20-00
I reviewed earlier the -22 version of the draft. The current -24 version
addresses most of my concerns. However, one piece of text that I thought we
have agreed upon with the authors (based on mail exchange
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/secdir/BMK4BuVWfECtHu34qikE9XmKTK0/) is
still missing in this version.

More specific: assertion that "It is well within current server array
technology to compute another key pair that hashes to the same HHIT." is only
true if the size of the the public key hash is small. I understand that this is
probably the case for the DRIP architecture, but the assertion in the draft is
generic with no mention of the actual hash size. I asked the authors to prepend
the sentence with the text like "If the size of the public key hash in the HHIT
is not large enough,", but for some reason this text didn't get into the -24
version.

I don't think this is a serious issue, but I would prefer the assertions in the
draft to be accurate.