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Last Call Review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01
review-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01-secdir-lc-salowey-2014-05-30-00

Request Review of draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519
Requested revision No specific revision (document currently at 02)
Type Last Call Review
Team Security Area Directorate (secdir)
Deadline 2014-05-29
Requested 2014-05-02
Authors S Moonesamy
I-D last updated 2014-05-30
Completed reviews Genart Last Call review of -01 by Tom Taylor (diff)
Genart Telechat review of -02 by Tom Taylor
Secdir Last Call review of -01 by Joseph A. Salowey (diff)
Opsdir Last Call review of -01 by Dan Romascanu (diff)
Assignment Reviewer Joseph A. Salowey
State Completed
Request Last Call review on draft-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519 by Security Area Directorate Assigned
Reviewed revision 01 (document currently at 02)
Result Has issues
Completed 2014-05-30
review-moonesamy-sshfp-ed25519-01-secdir-lc-salowey-2014-05-30-00
I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's
ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the
IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the
security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat
these comments just like any other last call comments.

This document defines an SSHFP DNS record for ED25519 signature algorithm.  The
document is ready with issues:

1)  This document describes how to store the fingerprint of a public key that
can be used with the ed25519 signature algorithm.  I do not see any reference
as to how to use the ed25519 signature algorithm in SSH.  Perhaps I am missing
a reference somewhere, but it really seems that the use of the signature
algorithm in SSH should be defined somewhere, preferably in an IETF document. 
I so not see the point of publishing the SSHFP record document without some
reference as to how it will be used.

2)  The examples in RFC 6594 include the OpenSSH formatted key that is decoded
and hashed to obtain the resulting fingerprint.  It would be better if the
draft followed this aspect of 6594 and included the key used to generate the
fingerprint.

Joe