RE: ACTION-767: Review references etc.

Looks good to me.

-- Magnus


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com [mailto:Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2011 6:48 AM
> To: Magnus Nystrom
> Cc: Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com; public-xmlsec@w3.org
> Subject: Re: ACTION-767: Review references etc.
> 
> I have updated the XML Encryption editors draft to refer to SP800-67 as a
> reference rather than TRIPLEDES.
> 
> Specifically,  it now says in section 5.2.2,
> http://www.w3.org/2008/xmlsec/Drafts/xmlenc-core-11/Overview.html#sec-
> tripledes-cbc :
> 
> "NIST SP800-67 [SP800-67] specifies three sequential FIPS 46-3 [DES]
> operations."
> 
> and the reference is:
> 
> [SP800-67]
> Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher,
> Revised 19 May 2008. SP800-67 Version 1.1. U.S. Department of
> Commerce/National Institute of Standards and Technology. URL:
> http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-67/SP800-67.pdf
> 
> Does this look correct?
> 
> I believe the only document that needed this change is XML Encryption 1.1
> 
> Thanks
> 
> regards, Frederick
> 
> Frederick Hirsch
> Nokia
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2011, at 8:23 PM, ext Magnus Nystrom wrote:
> 
> > Actually X9.52 has been withdrawn. A better reference might be NIST SP 800-
> 67:
> >
> > http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-67/SP800-67.pdf
> >
> > -- Magnus
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com [mailto:Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com]
> >> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:25 AM
> >> To: Magnus Nystrom
> >> Cc: Frederick.Hirsch@nokia.com; public-xmlsec@w3.org
> >> Subject: Re: ACTION-767: Review references etc.
> >>
> >> Magnus
> >>
> >> I cannot find a direct link for this one, do you have a URL:
> >>
> >>> - The reference for ANSI X9.52 should be linked as the reference for
> >>> ANSI
> >> X9.44. As it is right now, one only gets to the generic ANSI home page.
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> regards, Frederick
> >>
> >> Frederick Hirsch
> >> Nokia
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Jan 17, 2011, at 11:54 AM, ext Magnus Nystrom wrote:
> >>
> >>> Frederick, All,,
> >>> This is in response to ACTION-767 assigned to me last week.
> >>>
> >>> I don't know where the references are stored any longer so I have
> >>> not done
> >> any changes in the sources themselves but I did note the following:
> >>>
> >>> XML Encryption 1.1:
> >>> -------------------------
> >>> - The reference for NFC: The URL should be preceded by the string
> >>> "URL:" as
> >> for other references
> >>> - The reference for ANSI X9.52 should be linked as the reference for
> >>> ANSI
> >> X9.44. As it is right now, one only gets to the generic ANSI home page.
> >>> - The link to XML Signature Syntax and Processing Version 1.1 will
> >>> need to be
> >> updated eventually; same for XML Encryption Syntax and Processing 1.1.
> >>> - For [ECC-ALGS], we should check if it has been given an RFC number
> >>> yet. I will
> >> follow up on this. I believe it should still be informative in this document.
> >>>
> >>> Outside of the references:
> >>> - Section 5.1.1: Should probably be consistent in how we reference
> >>> the
> >> "with"/"omit" comments; sometimes we write "(omit comments)" and
> >> sometimes "with comments" (i.e. without parenthesis) and sometimes
> >> "comments" is spelled with a capital "C".
> >>> - Section 8.2, replace "they will be" with "there will be"
> >>>
> >>> Explain:
> >>> -----------
> >>> - My affiliation should be changed to Microsoft.
> >>> - 3.3: Change "Clarify" to "Clarified that"
> >>> - 5.4.2: That change is not relative to 1.0 and so I am not sure it
> >>> should be in
> >> here.
> >>> - "Message Authentication ..." - change "200900602" to "20090602"
> >>> - 8.2: Change description of first change to: "Changed "MIME media
> >>> type
> >> name" to " Type name" and "MIME subtype name" to "Subtype name"
> >>>
> >>> Generic Hybrid Ciphers:
> >>> -----------------------------
> >>> - Section 9, "Acknowledgements" is empty; in line with the other
> >>> documents I
> >> suggest removing this section altogether and instead creating a
> >> Section 1.2 "Acknowledgements" with the following text:
> >>>
> >>> The contributions of the following Working Group members to this
> >> specification are gratefully acknowledged in accordance with the
> >> contributor policies and the active WG roster: Frederick Hirsch,
> >> Brian LaMacchia, Thomas Roessler, Magnus Nyström, Bruce Rich, Scott
> >> Cantor, Hal Lockhart, Cynthia Martin, Ed Simon, Pratik Datta and Meiko
> Jensen.
> >>>
> >>> Additionally, we thank Burt Kaliski of EMC for his comments during
> >>> and
> >> subsequent to Last Call.
> >>>
> >>> - In Appendix A, the URL to [XMLENC-CORE1] and [XMLDSIG-CORE1]
> >>> should be
> >> updated, eventually, just as for XML Encryption 1.1.
> >>>
> >>> Requirements
> >>> -----------------
> >>> (I was not sure what to do here, but I did check the references
> >>> section as per
> >> below:)
> >>> - [C14N-REQS]: The URL is different between the hyperlink in the
> >>> title and the
> >> explicit URL.
> >>> - [C14N11]: Same as previous comment
> >>> - [EXI]: Missing hyperlink in title
> >>> - [Gajek]: Missing hyperlink in title
> >>> - [Infoset]: Missing hyperlink in title
> >>> - [McIntoshAustel] - Missing URL altogether. A possible URL is:
> >> http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1103022.1103026
> >>> - PKCS #5: Missing hyperlink in title
> >>> - RFC 2633 is obsoleted by RFC 3851
> >>> - SigProp: Different URL for title than for explicit URL.
> >>> - XMLDsig2nd: Missing hyperlink in title
> >>>
> >>> Best,
> >>> -- Magnus
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
>

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