Re: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-13 Thread Andrew Yourtchenko
Hi Hosnieh, On 8/13/13, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your comments. See my response as follow: > >> "prudent" and "best" are things that will change overtime. I can see the > value in >> publishing some algorithm to generate IID, and maybe the more of these we >> have - the b

RE: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-13 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
Follow up: Just a mistake... not 32 bits... 32 bytes! Everything in my last email is bytes and not bits... :-) I just got confused... > > Hi Andrew, > > Thanks for your comments. See my response as follow: > > > "prudent" and "best" are things that will change overtime. I can see > > the > val

RE: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-13 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
Hi Andrew, Thanks for your comments. See my response as follow: > "prudent" and "best" are things that will change overtime. I can see the value in > publishing some algorithm to generate IID, and maybe the more of these we > have - the better. > That section is related to the use of word "might

Re: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-13 Thread Andrew Yourtchenko
"One of the issues with this RFC concerns the wording that is used that allows the implementation to make the choice as to what approach to use, and in so doing, in some cases, the choice made is not the most prudent or best approach, and this thus is not ideal and can lead to some p

RE: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-13 Thread Hosnieh Rafiee
> For the record, this document doesn't address my feedback. > > Most of the I-D is about how to generate a random number. > > If you need a PRNG, just require implementations to implement one. Your > workaround is to get into the same level of complexity to produce a PRNG that > wil be employed

Re: ra-privacy : addressed the deficiencies of RFC 4941- applied recent comments

2013-08-12 Thread Fernando Gont
On 08/12/2013 07:58 PM, Hosnieh Rafiee wrote: > Hi, > I applied Fernando's recent comments. For the record, this document doesn't address my feedback. Most of the I-D is about how to generate a random number. If you need a PRNG, just require implementations to implement one. Your workaround is