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Using the Edwards-Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in the Internet Key Exchange Protocol Version 2 (IKEv2)
draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa-04

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From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@ietf.org>
Cc: The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, ekr@rtfm.com, ipsecme-chairs@ietf.org, kivinen@iki.fi, Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>, ipsec@ietf.org, draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa@ietf.org, rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org
Subject: Protocol Action: 'Using Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in the Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2)' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa-04.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Using Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA) in the
   Internet Key Exchange (IKEv2)'
  (draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa-04.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the IP Security Maintenance and Extensions
Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Kathleen Moriarty and Eric Rescorla.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ipsecme-eddsa/


Ballot Text

Technical Summary
This document describes the use of the Edwards-curve digital
signature algorithm in the IKEv2 protocol as proposed standard. 

Working Group Summary
 Version -01 went through WGLC. Changes suggested by the WG 
   participants were mostly editorial. There were three substantive
   decisions:
    (1) That the new value in the hash function registry requested from
      IANA for "Identity" shall not be zero.
    (2) That we will not use the pre-hashed version of the EdDSA
      function (same decision made by TLS and Curdle working groups)
    (3) That we will use a null context (or context-free Ed25519) for
      IKE (same decision reached in TLS and Curdle working groups)
   The resulting document represents WG consensus.
   The document was reviewed by several regular WG participants.
   Apple reports a working implementation.

Document Quality
See above


Personnel
Author is Yoav Nir. Eric Rescorla is the responsible Area Director. 
Tero Kivinen is the document shepherd.

RFC Editor Note