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Well there's at least one other document coauthored by M Salter and E Rescorla [1], so the notion that Rescorla was manipulated into co-authoring the Extended R
by mcphilip 13y ago
Well there's at least one other document coauthored by M Salter and E Rescorla [1], so the notion that Rescorla was manipulated into co-authoring the Extended Random paper has is a bit more problematic since it wasn't a one-off collaboration.
[1]http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-suiteb-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-suiteb-00
- tptacek 13y agoThat's the TLS standard for all of Suite B, which until recently was the de facto standard way virtually all software used elliptic curve crypto. It's not exactly a sketchy RFC. The word "collaboration" is funny here too, given how the IETF works. These people shared a mailing list. Rescorla is perhaps the most experienced person on the Internet at turning TLS WG mailing list discussions into Internet drafts. That his name would be on any number of TLS RFCs is about as surprising as seeing Mockapetris' name on a DNS RFC.
- mcphilip 13y agoFair enough. I'll admit my speculation is about as useless as hypothesizing Rescola was somehow manipulated by the NSA into putting his name on the extended random paper.