RE: [kmip] Groups - Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.docuploaded

Hi Robert,

 

My comments are inline.

 

Regards,

Indra

From: Robert Haas [mailto:] 

Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 6:06 AM
To: Fitzgerald, 
Indra
Cc: 
Subject: Re: [kmip] 
Groups - Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.doc 
uploaded

Indra, All, 
For clarity, instead of overloading the Key Value Type 
field, what about introducing a distinct "Key Compression Type" field with its 
own enumeration, both in the Get request and Key Block object? Also, we should 
consider renaming "Key Value Type" to "Key Format Type", to be more 
precise. 
 

[IF] I assume you are suggesting for us to avoid allowing 
multiple Key Value Types to be specified. I would be ok with that. I am also ok 
with changing the name to Key Format Type or Key Material 
Format.

 
Moreover, if we allow clients to specify under which format they wish to 
obtain a key (raw, transparent, etc), then should the spec state the following 
too ? 

- if a client registers a key 
in a given format/compression, the server must be able to provide it (as a 
response to Get requests) in at least that same format/compression (that would 
forbid, for instance, server implementations that take as input a transparent 
key and only store the flattened raw byte format).   
  
- any conversion from the original provided 
format/compression (that came through a Register operation from the client, or 
from a out-of-band admin operation) to any other format/compression is optional 
for the server to support.  

 

 [IF] Yes, we could include this. 
Note however that it is up to the vendor how the object will be 
stored.  

Regards, 
-Robert 

 wrote on 08/27/2009 
05:30:44 PM:

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> [kmip] Groups - Proposal for Adding Key Value Type to Get.doc 
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> indra.fitzgerald 

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08/27/2009 05:30 PM 
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> Proposal for 
adding Key Value Type to the Get Request Payload.

> -- Mrs. Indra Fitzgerald

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> Proposal for adding Key Value Type to the Get Request 
Payload.

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