[Ach] reviewers

[L. Aaron Kaplan]

On Dec 24, 2013, at 5:32 PM, christian mock <cm at coretec.at> wrote:

> One of the people I asked for a review was a bit worried that he
> couldn't stand with his name for the sections of the document he
> didn't review; he asked to have the reviewed sections listed with the
> reviewers, which I thought to be waaaaay to complicated, so I proposed
> to put some note in the reviewers section mentioning that they didn't
> review everything...
> 
> Please check and revert if you don't like it.

Makes sense, thanks

> 
> From the reviewers I contacted, the following issues are up for
> discussion:
> 
> * we need a more prominent note that the reader should make sure he's got a
>  current copy of our document, because "secure" settings may change
>  any day when a new attack is discovered!

ACK

> 
> * PKI section; I've rewritten it to include the CA and the Web of
>  Trust system to be more generic.
> 
> * admins might be interested in performance estimates (i.e. "if I turn
>  on PFS, what is the slowdown?")
> 
Good idea

> * the "MAC" column in the cipher suite tables (3.2.3) and in other
>  places does actually not contain a MAC, but a hash or a block cipher
>  mode... this may be nitpicking, but so will be our readers.
> 
> * "factoring large primes" (ECC section, f'rex) is wrong, it's about
>  prime-factoring large numbers, isn't it?
> 
Nice catch :)

> more later,
> 
> cm.
> 
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