Date: Sunday, September 21, 2008 @ 19:11:06
Author: eagle
Revision: 5045
Add informative references to PGP Moose and pgpverify, as requested by
the security review during Last Call.
Modified:
docs/usefor/usepro.xml
Modified: docs/usefor/usepro.xml
===================================================================
--- docs/usefor/usepro.xml 2008-09-22 01:57:54 UTC (rev 5044)
+++ docs/usefor/usepro.xml 2008-09-22 02:11:06 UTC (rev 5045)
@@ -1726,7 +1726,8 @@
standardized means of authenticating the sender of a control
message or verifying that the contents of a control message were
sent by the claimed sender. There are, however, some
- unstandardized authentication mechanisms in common use.</t>
+ unstandardized authentication mechanisms in common use, such as
+ <xref target="PGPVERIFY" />.</t>
<t>Agents acting on control messages SHOULD take steps to
authenticate control messages before acting on them, as
@@ -2120,7 +2121,10 @@
SHOULD verify that messages approved for a moderated newsgroup are
being injected by the moderator using authentication information
from the underlying transport or some other authentication
- mechanism arranged with the moderator.</t>
+ mechanism arranged with the moderator. There is, at present, no
+ standardized method of authenticating approval of messages to
+ moderated groups, although some unstandardized authentication
+ methods such as <xref target="PGPMOOSE" /> are in common use.</t>
<t>A malicious news server participating in a Netnews network may
bypass checks performed by injecting agents, forge Path header
@@ -2259,6 +2263,29 @@
</references>
<references title="Informative References">
+ <reference anchor="PGPMOOSE" target="http://seer-grog.net/README">
+ <front>
+ <title>PGP Moose</title>
+ <author initials="G." surname="Rose" fullname="Greg Rose">
+ <organization>QUALCOMM</organization>
+ </author>
+ <date day="26" month="November" year="1998" />
+ </front>
+ <format type="TXT" target="http://seer-grog.net/README" />
+ </reference>
+ <reference anchor="PGPVERIFY"
+ target="ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/FORMAT">
+ <front>
+ <title>Signing Control Messages</title>
+ <author initials="D." surname="Lawrence"
+ fullname="David C. Lawrence">
+ <organization>Internet Systems Consortium, Inc.</organization>
+ </author>
+ <date month="August" year="2001" />
+ </front>
+ <format type="TXT"
+ target="ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/pgpcontrol/FORMAT" />
+ </reference>
&rfc0976;
&rfc1036;
&rfc2045;
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