IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 OpenPGP Working Group IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea March 2, 2004 Chair: Derek Atkins List: Subscribe:
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Agenda ● Introductions – Appoint a Secretary (2 mins) – Call for Agenda Changes (1 min) ● draft-ietf-openpgp-rfc2440bis – Status (2 mins) – Open issues (40 mins) ● Rechartering – Updated Milestones (15 mins)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 rfc2440bis status ● The editor is not here. ● -09 is out ● Still many open issues
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 List of Issues ● Clarification needed on compressed messages – Creator: David Shaw – Desc: the spec is inconsistent in handling COMPRESS(LITERAL + LITERAL) – Resolution: closed (fixed)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 List of issues ● Non-textual User Ids – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: change user IDs to UTF-8 only – Status: closed (fixed)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 List of Issues ● Shamir's Discrete Logarithm Hash – Created by: vedaal – Desc: include SDLH in OpenPGP – Status: closed (no consensus to include)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 List of Issues ● Comment Length and Format – Created by: Ian Grigg – Desc: long comments can be line-wrapped and/or misinterpretted. – Status: closed (no consensus for any changes)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Signature woes and reconciliation – Created by: Hal Finney – Desc: trouble calculating the hash to verify a v3 DSA one-pass signature. – Suggested text: add “in the same hash context” or pseudocode – Resolution: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Trailing White Space issue(s) – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: question about ignoring trailing whitespace for textmode signed messages, and the status of a tab character. – Question: ok to just strip chars < 0x20? Where? – Status: open (need text)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Using IDEA in the v3-v4 algorithm conflict – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: a problem with the algorithm for backwards compatibility with RFC1991 when trying to use something other than IDEA. – Status: open (need text)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● 3 rd party signatures in a one-pass signed message – Created by: poiboy at saf and David Shaw – Desc: there is no language in the draft specifying how a 0x50 3 rd party or notary signature is handled. – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Need to obsolete RFC1991 – Created by: Alfred H?nes – Desc: RFC1991 was never obsoleted by RFC2440 – Suggested text: obsolete rfc1991, 2440 – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Back-signatures from a signing subkey onto the primary key – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: need to describe how to sign the primary key from the subkey – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Non UTF-8 Text in Message Body – Created by: Felix Storm – Desc: Is it allowed to encode the message body in any other character set than UTF-8 without using the “Charset” armor header key? – Status: open (need text)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Remove Elgamal signatures (type 20 keys) – Created by: Werner Koch – Desc: remove type 20 keys from the specification – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Partial length chunks and 5-byte lengths – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: Section (Partial Body Lengths) is inconsistent in its explicit statement of valid length encodings. – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● “cleartext signatures” naming consistency – Created by: Ian Grigg – Desc: multiple terms are used to name “cleartext signatures” -- we should be consistent and call them “cleartext” (the dominant form) – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● MDC Inconsistency in bis-09 – Created by: David Shaw – Desc: sections 5.13 and 5.14 are inconsistent about what gets hashed. (5.14 apparantly incorrect) – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Open Issues ● Secret Key Packet Formats – Created by: Kazu Yamamoto – Desc: editorial clarifications of – Status: open (text supplied)
IETF-59, Seoul, S. Korea OpenPGP, March 2, 2004 Rechartering (update milestones) ● Our milestones are out of date ● Suggested changes: – Submit 2440bis to IESG (as PROPOSED): May 04 – Submit multiple sig draft to IESG (as PROPOSED): Aug 04 – Begin RFC2440bis and PGP/MIME Interop testing: Aug 04 – Advance 2440bis to DRAFT: Feb 05