[Babel-users] First draft on relaxing Babel HMAC

[David Schinazi]

Thanks for writing this, Juliusz!

I've been lurking on the other threads, and I think this is the most
pragmatic
(and therefore the best) solution to this problem. Assuming we get
confirmation from a real deployment that this solution helps,
I'm fully supportive of publishing this as standards track RFC.

I would also be OK with a RFC8967-bis, but I agree with Juliusz that it
would be more work, and I'd prefer the WG spend its limited free time
on more useful endeavours such as publishing the RTT extension.
So let's publish this and just add the metadata tag that it updates 8967.

I commit to reviewing this document as it progresses and I would be in favor
of its adoption by the WG if that were requested.

David

On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 5:13 AM Juliusz Chroboczek <jch at irif.fr> wrote:

> Hi Toke, hello list,
>
> I've just written a first draft of an ID that describes the changes that
> you and I have made to our respective implementations of Babel-MAC.  See
> the directory "draft-chroboczek-babel-mac-relaxed" under
>
>   https://github.com/jech/babel-drafts/
>
> I've put readable HTML here:
>
>
> https://www.irif.fr/~jch/software/babel/draft-chroboczek-babel-mac-relaxed.html
>
> Toke, you have write access to the repository; please feel free, if you so
> desire, to fill-in Section 2.2 and add yourself to the list of authors (in
> that order).
>
> List, do you think this is a good idea for an RFC, or do people prefer
> a new revision of RFC 8967?  The latter is more work, and will take more
> time.
>
> -- Juliusz
>
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