On 06/11/2017 15:00, William Atwood wrote:
> Supplementary question:
> 
> Is the change from SHA-1 (in RFC 4193) to SHA256 (in this draft) 
> intentional?  If so (and I presume that it is, given that SHA-1 seems to 
> be in disrepute), then the statements in Section 6.10.2 of the ACP document:
> 
> "The first 48 bits follow the ULA scheme, as defined in [RFC4193], to 
> which a type field is added:"
> 
> will have to be altered to note the change from SHA-1 to SHA256.

Note that there aren't any normative keywords applied to the choice
of SHA-1 in RFC4193, so I don't think this is a normative update.
 
>    Bill
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [Anima] Section 6.10.2 of draft-ietf-anima-autonomic-control-plane
> Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2017 13:43:54 -0400
> From: William Atwood <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> 
> Para 2, bullet 2, says the following:
> 
> "The 40 bits ULA "global ID" (term from [RFC4193]) for ACP
> addresses carried in the domain information field of domain
> certificates are the first 40 bits of the SHA256 hash of the
> routing subdomain from the same domain information field. In the
> example of Section 6.1.1, the routing subdomain is
> "area51.research.acp.example.com" and the 40 bits ULA "global ID"
> a379a6f6ee."
> 
> Since I wanted to see what the SHA256 hash would be for an Autonomic 
> Network that I plan to create in my lab, I went looking for SHA256 hash 
> generators on-line.
> 
> For two different on-line generators, I get the following results:
> 
> http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator
> area51.research.acp.example.com
> 89b714f3db8e41558cfb49d4d763ee7cc5ae53a3ffe8a17039679d06dc9bb0e3
> 
> http://passwordsgenerator.net/sha256-hash-generator/
> area51.research.acp.example.com
> 89B714F3DB8E41558CFB49D4D763EE7CC5AE53A3FFE8A17039679D06DC9BB0E3
> 
> These give identical results, but the first 40 bits have no (apparent) 
> relationship with the result cited in the ACP draft.
> 
> Does anyone have any idea which one is wrong, and why?
> 
>    Bill
> 

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