Re: Secdir last call review of draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding-08 from Martin Thomson on 2017-04-06 (ietf-http-wg@w3.org from April to June 2017)

From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:43:13 +1000
To: Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com>
Cc: "secdir@ietf.org" <secdir@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-httpbis-encryption-encoding.all@ietf.org, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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On 7 April 2017 at 00:47, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
>>
>> That said, I think that the counter thing can be removed.  We require
>> 128 bits of salt, which is a space that is large enough to select
>> randomly from in perpetuity.
>
> That would be my personal preference.

Sold.  https://github.com/httpwg/http-extensions/commit/8c31395609cdd2d1a91059fcbaa5a33fda622525

Received on Thursday, 6 April 2017 23:43:46 UTC