Re: Last call comments for draft-ietf-secsh-publickey-subsystem-07

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams%sun.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:16:00PM +0200, Jon Bright wrote:
> Jacob Nevins wrote:
> >
> >   In the following, "public-key blob" has the format specified
> >   in section 6.6, "Public Key Algorithms" of the SSH Transport
> >   Protocol document [2]:
> >
> >         string    certificate or public key format identifier
> >         byte[n]   key/certificate data
> >
> >(Although in fact I'd rather we avoided the term "blob" entirely, as
> >in publickeyfile, due to the conflict with 4253.)

What conflict?  I see no conflict.  RFC4253 *is* the [2] reference.

> The suggestion seems OK.  I'm not sure what word other than "blob" we 
> could use.  "public key object"?  "public key representation"?  Since 
> we're in IESG evaluation now, I'm not sure what the process is for 
> integrating such a change.  If I can issue another rev, I will (unless 
> someone speaks up against it) include this change.

If there's consensus for such a change and we're talking about something
not very substantive then your AD may instruct you to make it during
AUTH48.

Nico
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