ChaCha20, Poly1305, and Their Use in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) and IPsec
RFC 7634
Yes
No Objection
Note: This ballot was opened for revision 11 and is now closed.
Alvaro Retana No Objection
(Alissa Cooper; former steering group member) Yes
Agree with the comments about toning down the language in the first paragraph.
(Kathleen Moriarty; former steering group member) Yes
(Stephen Farrell; former steering group member) Yes
intro: "gold standard" is being a bit too keen IMO, I'd say toning the language down a bit would be better. intro: 3DES may be the "only other widely supported" cipher for IPsec, but that's not true more generally. section 2 says: "As the ChaCha20 block function is not applied directly to the plaintext, no padding should be necessary." That "should" could be confusing as written if a reader thinks it means their code doesn't have to do padding. It might be better to e.g. say something like "In theory no padding is needed for this cipher, however, in keeping with..." section 3: Is "SHOULD inlude no padding" really right? I'd have thought a MAY was better there. "MUST accept any length" is also a bit odd - what if I (try:-) add loads of padding? Appendices: thanks for those - I assume someone checked them for you? (I didn't:-)
(Alia Atlas; former steering group member) No Objection
(Barry Leiba; former steering group member) No Objection
(Ben Campbell; former steering group member) No Objection
This is easier than usual to read for this sort of draft :-) -- Section 1, 1st paragraph: I concur with Stephen's comment. Furthermore, this entire paragraph pretty much reads like advertising copy. Can it be toned down a bit? -- 8.1 (Normative References) The reference to [RFC7539] is a normative downref. I don't see it on the downref registry, nor was it mentioned in the last call notice. (For the record, I think it's a reasonable downref.)
(Benoît Claise; former steering group member) No Objection
(Brian Haberman; former steering group member) No Objection
(Deborah Brungard; former steering group member) No Objection
(Jari Arkko; former steering group member) No Objection
(Joel Jaeggli; former steering group member) No Objection
Juergen Schoenwaelder's comment's from the opsdir review were applied in version 11.
(Martin Stiemerling; former steering group member) No Objection
(Spencer Dawkins; former steering group member) No Objection
(Terry Manderson; former steering group member) No Objection