[Nfd-dev] Try NDNCERT (based on Interest-Data exchange) and get an NDN certificate today

Lixia Zhang lixia at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Nov 21 17:02:43 PST 2019


> On Nov 21, 2019, at 1:23 PM, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 
> Dear folks
> 
> There's no need to argue over a string. It adds nothing to the security properties.
> Like all good network engineers, I read in hexadecimal.

> I see 0x50524F4245 and 0x5F50524F4245, not strings.

Junxiao, 

the rest of the community are not Junxiao; at least I read ascii strings.

> Pick one, stick with it, and ensure it's consistent everywhere.
> 
> Yours, Junxiao
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 4:15 PM Zhiyi Zhang <zhiyi at cs.ucla.edu <mailto:zhiyi at cs.ucla.edu>> wrote:
> I remembered it's a previous decision made by Alex. He suggested to have an underscore to distinguish this from normal name components because _XXX is a fixed component defined by the protocol.
> 
> Best,
> Zhiyi
> 
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 10:42 AM Davide Pesavento <davidepesa at gmail.com <mailto:davidepesa at gmail.com>> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 1:23 PM Junxiao Shi
> <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu <mailto:shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Zhiyi
> >
> > The following responses are made on this protocol revision:
> > https://github.com/named-data/ndncert/wiki/NDNCERT-Protocol-0.2/68dd20c6457ffb6d57aac3eb7e06f0497dd4053a <https://github.com/named-data/ndncert/wiki/NDNCERT-Protocol-0.2/68dd20c6457ffb6d57aac3eb7e06f0497dd4053a>
> >
> >>> different assigned numbers
> >>> Some assigned numbers differ between protocol (left) and implementation (right).
> >>> NEW vs _NEW
> >>> CHALLENGE vs _CHALLENGE
> >>> DOWNLOAD vs _DOWNLOAD
> >>> EncryptedPayload: 602 vs 630
> >>> InitialVector: 605 vs 632
> >>
> >>
> >> Addressed in the latest protocol Wiki page.
> >
> >
> > Incomplete.
> >
> > PROBE in section 2.1 vs _PROBE in section 2.3.1 examples
> > NEW in section 2.1 vs _NEW in section 2.3.2 examples
> > CHALLENGE in section 2.1 vs _CHALLENGE in section 2.3.3 examples
> > DOWNLOAD in section 2.1 vs _DOWNLOAD in section 2.3.4 examples
> 
> I wonder what's the reason for the underscores. Why don't you simply
> eliminate all of them?
> 
> Davide
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