Re: additional XMLDSIG URIs

From:  merlin <merlin@baltimore.ie>
To:  "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>
Cc:  "Brian LaMacchia" <bal@microsoft.com>, w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org,
            lde008@dms.isg.mot.com
In-reply-to:  <200104180357.XAA0000059340@torque.pothole.com> 
Date:  Wed, 18 Apr 2001 18:58:32 +0100
Message-Id:  <20010418175832.3498C4424F@yog-sothoth.ie.baltimore.com>

>Hi guys,
>
>I dislike the truncation option on the two SHA digests. The fact
>that their underlying implementations are similar will probably
>be entirely hidden from XMLDSIG implementors who will likely do
>MessageDigest.getInstance ("SHA-384") or equivalent. Truncation
>will add significant (relative) complexity in this (probable)
>situation.

OK, unless some support springs up in the next day or two, the
next revision of my draft will drop the truncation optional
parameters to SHA-384 and SHA-512.

>I'd suggest, for consideration, the type foo#pkcs7SignedData
>pointing at a PKCS#7 signed data with associated certs and CRLs.
>While not necessarily _good_, it is a fairly common container.

OK.

>I could not find draft-eastlake-uri-fqdn-param-00.txt but I
>personally would prefer a single base URL (not the XMLDSIG
>namespace) that suggests the common origin of these URIs.

It's at
<ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-eastlake-uri-fqdn-param-00.txt>

Donald

>Merlin
>
>r/dee3@torque.pothole.com/2001.04.17/23:57:46
>>
>>From:  "Brian LaMacchia" <bal@microsoft.com>
>>Resent-Date:  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 17:43:47 -0400 (EDT)
>>Resent-Message-Id:  <200104172143.RAA08733@www19.w3.org>
>>Date:  Tue, 17 Apr 2001 14:11:39 -0700
>>Message-ID:  <BCDB2C3F59F5744EBE37C715D66E779CEAB65F@red-msg-04.redmond.corp.m
>>icrosoft.com>
>>To:  "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd" <dee3@torque.pothole.com>,
>>            <w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org>
>>Cc:  <lde008@dms.isg.mot.com>
>>
>>>Two questions:
>>>
>>>1) Why did you choose to use URLs that were not of the form
>>>"http://www.w3.org/2000/09/xmldsig#<something>", where the something is
>>>sha256, sha284, etc.  Ideally these should probably be NIST-defined
>>>identifiers, and failing that I would have expected them to follow the
>>>XMLDSIG naming scheme.  
>>
>>Variously: I was taking my own advice from
>>draft-eastlake-uri-fqdn-param-00.txt; NIST in their draft seems to
>>only define OIDs, not URIs; and these additional URIs are not
>>officially part of the XMLDSIG standard nor is their naming and
>>compilation a work item of this working group.  However, as long as it
>>does not violate some official policy of the IETF or W3C (which my
>>fqdn draft certainly isn't yet), I'd generally be willing to go along
>>with working group consensus on this matter as well as on the one
>>below.
>>
>>>2) Why did you add the truncation options to SHA-384 and SHA-512?  I
>>>can't really see a point in this; if you want a shorter hash output then
>>>just use a shorter hash function.  DO you have a particular scenario in
>>>mind that would likely want to use a subset of a SHA-384 or SHA-512
>>>hash?
>>
>>SHA-384 and SHA-512 are 99.9+% identical. The only difference is the
>>value of the eight starting constants and that SHA-384 is the result
>>of truncating the 512 bit result.  Anyone implementing both of these
>>will share the 99.9+% of identical code between them and call it from
>>an outer routine that provides the initial constants and, for SHA-384,
>>truncates the results.  It seems like < 0.01% more work to let people
>>get 400 bit or 320 bit or other odd size hashes <= 512 if they have
>>such a need...
>>
>>>					--bal
>>
>>By the way, hopefully the final revision of draft-eastlake-sha1-01.txt
>>will get publicly posted next week and in not too long it should be an
>>Informational RFC documenting sample code to do SHA-1.  I'm planning
>>on also doing a couple of drafts covering SHA-256/384/512.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Donald
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [mailto:dee3@torque.pothole.com] 
>>>Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 8:59 PM
>>>To: w3c-ietf-xmldsig@w3.org
>>>Cc: lde008@dms.isg.mot.com
>>>Subject: additional XMLDSIG URIs
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>My first partial draft of additional XMLDSIG URIs is at
>>><ftp://ftp.pothole.com/pub/dee3/draft-eastlake-xmldsig-uri-00.txt>
>>>
>>>Donald
>>>
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