Orit,

Thanks for the review, making sure the editor see this.

Kathleen

On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 5:30 PM, Orit Levin <or...@microsoft.com> wrote:

> I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. The General Area Review
> Team (Gen-ART) reviews all IETF documents being processed by the IESG for
> the IETF Chair.  Please treat these comments just like any other last call
> comments.
>
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> Document: review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-safecurves-04
> Reviewer: Orit Levin (mailto:or...@microsoft.com)
> Review Date: 2016-09-27
> IETF LC End Date: 2016-09-29
> IESG Telechat date: unknown
>
> Summary:
> This draft is basically ready for publication, but has nits that should be
> fixed before publication. The nits are purely editorial, but fixing them
> will improve the document's readability.
>
> 1. Introduction
> Par.1 "key agreement (Diffie-Hellman)" : Replace with "key agreement using
> Diffie-Hellman".
> Par.2 "That document": Replace with the name of the document to make clear
> which one is "that" document.
> Par.2 "free from": Replace with "resilient to".
>
> 2. Curve25519 and Curve448
> Add at the start "Implementations of Curve25519 and Curve448 MUST/SHALL
> follow the steps described in this section."
> Par.1 Replace "are inherited from" with "are compliant with".
> Par.2 Replace "goes as" with "is performed as"
>
> 3. Use and Negotiation in IKEv2
> Consider replacing TBA1/TBA2 throughout the section with [to be replaced
> with TBA1/TBA2 according to the IANA assignment].
> 3.2 Consider replace the first sentence with
> "Receiving and handling of incompatible point formats MUST comply with [or
> MUST follow] considerations/procedures described in section 5 of [RFC7748]."
>
> 4. Security Considerations
> Par.1 Replace the paragraph text to
> "For high-performance constant-time implementations, it is RECOMMENDED to
> use Curve25519 and Curve448 which were designed for this purpose.
> Implementers MUST/SHOULD NOT attempt to improve performance by reusing
> supposedly ephemeral key pair across multiple key exchanges [because ...]."
> Par.3 In " ... the process used to pick these curves..." replace "these"
> with the names to avoid confusion.
> Par.3 Replace " ...verification has been done..." with "verification can
> be done".
> Par.4 Replace ",generated in a fully verifiable way," with "that are
> generated in a fully verifiable way".
>
> 6. Acknowledgements
> Par1. Replace "is by Mike" with "were defined/specified/etc. by Mike".
> Par1. Replace "are in RFC 7748" with " are documented/specified/etc. in
> RFC 7748".
>
> Thank you,
> Orit.
>
>
>
>


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Best regards,
Kathleen
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