From 61f0f74f36b69b828c048509dc010866910a523e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:43:52 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Aargh. Ken's sentence is good, but can't be added to Security Considerations. --- doc/RFC-DRAFT.roff | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/RFC-DRAFT.roff b/doc/RFC-DRAFT.roff index ce3a8fb..49d2835 100644 --- a/doc/RFC-DRAFT.roff +++ b/doc/RFC-DRAFT.roff @@ -97,8 +97,7 @@ Conformant implementations MUST implement [RFC1924] encoding in order to decode Conformant implementations MUST implement the inverse of [RFC1924] encoding in order to encode an INTERCAL statement into an IPv6 address. For purposes of this specification, we to the preceding transcoding as a 'reverse Elz transform'. In either case, Elz to pay. -Conformant implementation SHALL begin by expressing the INTERCAL source code in the 7-bit ASCII "Atari" syntax. Support for the 8-bit EBCDIC Princeton syntax and 8-bit Latin-1 Princeton syntax are beyond the scope of this specification, and support for the 5-bit -Baudot Princeton syntax with shift codes is right out. +Conformant implementation SHALL begin by expressing the INTERCAL source code in the 7-bit ASCII "Atari" syntax. Support for the 8-bit EBCDIC Princeton syntax and 8-bit Latin-1 Princeton syntax are beyond the scope of this specification, and support for the 5-bit Baudot Princeton syntax with shift codes is right out. .ti 0 2.2 Procedure @@ -126,7 +125,7 @@ Because the reverse Elz transform imposes a limit of 20 characters on the length .ti 0 3 Security Considerations -INTERCAL is well known to promote (job) security, if at the expense of an occasional dose of a strong antipsychotic. IFFY encoding adds an additional steganographic layer; lacking prior knowledge that addresses are being used to encode INTERCAL, attackers will be unable to derange themselves by contemplating its actual semantics. Additionally, IFFY opens up some novel possibilities for hiding the implementation of sensitive algorithms, e.g. in IPv6 routing tables. This additional functionality, the Internet Architecture for Programmatically Heuristic, Turing Abhorrent Generative Networking, will be documented in a future RFC when the stars have aligned. +INTERCAL is well known to promote (job) security, if at the expense of an occasional dose of a strong antipsychotic. IFFY encoding adds an additional steganographic layer; lacking prior knowledge that addresses are being used to encode INTERCAL, attackers will be unable to derange themselves by contemplating its actual semantics. Additionally, IFFY opens up some novel possibilities for hiding the implementation of sensitive algorithms, e.g. in IPv6 routing tables. .ti 0 -- 2.43.0