David McGrew | 11 May 2009 20:49
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ISOC sponsoring research paper on Trust and Identity

FYI - ISOC is sponsoring a research paper for NDSS 2010 on Trust and  
Identity.  If you are interested please contact Kevin for details.

David

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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	ISOC sponsoring research paper on Trust and Identity
> Date: 	Thu, 7 May 2009 16:44:02 -0400
> From: 	Kevin Craemer <Craemer <at> isoc.org>
> To: 	<irtf-chair <at> irtf.org>
> CC: 	<lynch <at> isoc.org>
>
>
>
> Dear Mr. Falk,
> The Internet Society is sponsoring a research paper on Trust and  
> Identity in
> connection with the 2010 Network and Distributed System Security  
> Symposium
> (NDSS'10) in San Diego. Lucy Lynch suggested to me that this might  
> be of
> interest to you and colleagues of yours in connection with the work  
> of the
> IRTF and/or the GENI project.
>
> Below are additional details and a link to the Call for Papers.  
> Please let
> me know if I can answer any questions.
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David McGrew | 29 May 2009 01:14
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Re: DNSSEC considering adopting GOST R 34.10-2001 and GOST R 34.11-94


On Apr 27, 2009, at 8:02 AM, Christian Rechberger wrote:

> Quoting Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman <at> vpnc.org>:
>
>> At 6:00 AM -0700 4/27/09, David McGrew wrote:
>>> some other important questions: how widely reviewed is that  
>>> algorithm?
>>
>> I believe that Ólafur would like CFRG to determine the answer to  
>> that question. The expertise for "how widely reviewed" is in this  
>> group, not in DNSEXT.
>>
>>> What are the claimed security levels?
>>
>> And herein lies a problem. The GOST specs are in Russian. I do not  
>> believe that there are any official English translations, and that  
>> the unofficial ones are expensive. (I would love to be wrong about  
>> either of those statements.) I have Cc' the author of the relevant  
>> draft on this message so he can help.
>>
>>> Where is guidance on how to use the algorithm?
>>
>> In the draft itself:
<http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-dolmatov-dnsext-dnssec-gost-00.txt 
>> >

The draft doesn't have a "security considerations" section.   There is  
no guidance other than key size and hash size, and neither the draft  
nor RFC 4357 describe what the targeted security level is, or describe  
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