ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols
draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305-10

IESG/Authors:

IANA has reviewed draft-irtf-cfrg-chacha20-poly1305 version -09. Authors should review the comments and/or questions below. Please report any inaccuracies and respond to any questions as soon as possible.

We received the following comments/questions from the IANA's reviewer:

IANA understands that, upon approval of this document, there is a single action which need completion.

In the AEAD Algorithms subregistry of the Authenticated Encryption with Associated Data (AEAD) Parameters registry located at:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/aead-parameters/

a single, new AEAD Algorithm will be registered as follows:

Numeric ID: [ TBD-at-Registration ]
Name: AEAD_CHACHA20-POLY1305
Reference: [ RFC-to-be ]

Note: The DE, David McGrew, has reviewed this draft version -03 in November 2014.
This version does not make any change to the requested IANA action from version -03.

Question: The new registration name is "AEAD_CHACHA20-POLY1305" that contains
a hyphen. Is it (hyphen) allowed in the registry AEAD Algorithms? All names in
that registry are using underscores. We just double check with you as you know
the specification better.

IANA understands that this is the only action required to be completed upon approval of this document.

Note: The actions requested in this document will not be completed until the document has been approved for publication as an RFC. This message is only to confirm what actions will be performed.

As per email from IANA on December 3rd:

The designated expert has approved this document's registration request. Upon approval for publication, IANA will make the following registration in the AEAD Algorithms at http://www.iana.org/assignments/aead-parameters:

[TBD]  AEAD_CHACHA20-POLY1305  [this document]

The document needs a minor update to state that it is a Consensus  document from CFRG. There is also a minor problem in one pseudo-code example. Other than that it is ready for IRSG review.