Re: I-D ACTION:draft-igoe-secsh-suiteb-00.txt (fwd)

[Jeffrey Hutzelman <jhutz%cmu.edu@localhost>]

--On Wednesday, September 17, 2008 06:31:35 AM -0700 Chris Lonvick 
<clonvick%cisco.com@localhost> wrote:


>  	Title		: Suite B Cryptographic Suites for Secure Shell
>  	Author(s)	: K. Igoe
>  	Filename	: draft-igoe-secsh-suiteb-00.txt
>  	Pages		: 9
>  	Date		: 2008-9-11
>
> This document describes the basic architecture of a Suite B compliant
>     implementation of the Secure Shell Transport Layer Protocol.  Suite B
>     secure shell makes use of elliptic curve Diffie-Hellmann (ECDH) key
>     agreement, the elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA),
>     the Advanced Encryption Standard running in Galois Counter Mode
>     (AES-GCM), two members of the SHA-2 family of hashes (SHA-256 and
>     SHA-384), and X.509 certificates.

Interesting.  I've been asked to serve as PROTO shepherd for 
draft-green-secsh-ecc, to which this document refers.  I'm expecting a new 
version of that document to be submitted hopefully sometime this month, and 
would encourage readers of this list to review both documents.

-- Jeff