Re: [psg.com #460] IESG - Transport - Oakley

[nisse%lysator.liu.se@localhost (Niels Möller)]

Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost> writes:

> > On the other hand,
> > it would be nice to be able to generalize
> >
> >   diffie-hellman-groupXX-sha1   Well known group XX    (RFC 3516)
> 
> I was assuming it was pretty much agreed that this would be the
> appropriate solution.  It does mean there's no name for the method
> which uses group 1, but somehow I suspect we don't care very much...

Agreed, it's reasonable to not care about the 768-bit "well known
group 1". It just wasn't clear to me before that the numbering in
"diffie-hellman-group1-sha1" does *not* match the numbering elsewhere
(RFC 2412).

Regards,
/Niels