Re: comments on draft 03 of SKIP

[ashar@osmosys.incog.com (Ashar Aziz)]

> From housley@spyrus.com Tue Nov 14 08:02 PST 1995
> Date: Tue, 14 Nov 95 07:25:58 
> From: "Housley, Russ" <housley@spyrus.com>
> Ashar:
> 
> At SPYRUS, we have always included MD5 within our commercial PCMCIA crypto 
> token, the LYNKS Privacy Card.  We originally put the MD5 hash into the 
> card to support digital signature applications, and it would be a trivial 
> modification to use it for key update in the manner that I suggested in my 
> original note.  In fact, we already have plans to add the X9.42 scheme once 
> the ANSI X9.F.1  committee comes to consensus on the remaining open 
> details.
> 
> I think the SKIP users and developers will be better served by the hash 
> approach.

Russ,

I tend to agree with you. The next draft of SKIP will contain
the hash based approach. (For the independent implementors
of SKIP, this is the same as the hash based scheme described for 
manual master key setup). I will put out a new draft soon.

Thanks,
Ashar.

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