Re: New Version Notification for draft-green-secsh-ecc-07

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

--On Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:04:03 AM -0400 der Mouse 
<mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:

>  >> Has anyone here tried to implement [draft-green-secsh-ecc]?
> > > I'd like to, but it appears unimplementable without copies of X9.63
> > > and IEEE1363, [...]
> > ANSI X9.63 and IEEE 1363 are listed as informative references only.
> > I believe that SEC 1, listed as a normative reference, contains all
> > information required to implement ECDH, ECDSA, and ECMQV; it is
> > freely available from the URL in the references.
>
> Actually, it is not; it is at least two and I think three links removed
> from the URL in the references.  (The shortest path I've found is
> http://www.secg.org/ -> "Documents" ->
> http://www.secg.org/index.php?action=secg,docs_home -> "Released
> Standards" -> http://www.secg.org/?action=secg,docs_secg -> "SEC1:
> Elliptic Curve Cryptography version 2.0" ->
> http://www.secg.org/download/aid-780/sec1-v2.pdf.)

This is true.  A better reference would be one that includes a link 
directly to the document in question, rather than just to the SECG web 
site.  However, a stable reference is important too -- a URL that will stop 
working is not very useful.

-- Jeff