OASIS Open: Committees

Revised DSA mechanism proposal

Do you accept the proposal for revisions to the DSA mechanism?

Do you accept the proposal for revisions to the DSA mechanism as proposed by Bob Relyea on 21-Jun-2013, posted at https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/pkcs11/download.php/49654/pkcs11-dsa-186-3.doc (also attached as reference item)?

[ ]	Yes
[ ]	No
[ ]	Abstain

Opening:		Wednesday, 17 July 2013 @ 08:00 am EDT
Closing:		Wednesday, 7 August 2013 @ 03:00 pm EDT
Group:		OASIS PKCS 11 TC

Ballot has closed.

Referenced Items
Name	Type	Date	Action
DSA 186-3 related changes. (146K)	Document	2013-06-21	Details
02458: Revised DSA mechanism proposal (41K)	Document	2013-08-07	Details

Voting Details

Voting Summary

Options with highest number of votes are bold

Option	# Votes	% of Total
Yes	10	83%
No	2	17%
Abstain	7

Eligible members who have voted:	12 of 33	36%
Eligible members who have abstained:	7 of 33	21%
Eligible members who have not voted:	14 of 33	42%

Voting Details

Voter	Company	Vote	Reference Document and/or Comment
Chris Zimman	Bloomberg Finance L.P.	Abstain
Magda Zdunkiewicz	Cryptsoft Pty Ltd.	Yes
Tony Cox	Cryptsoft Pty Ltd.	Yes
Tim Hudson	Cryptsoft Pty Ltd.	Yes	Assuming the typos noted by Oscar are fixed this looks good to me - but Mike's comments and Bob's response I think are an item to perhaps go into the usage guide.
Christopher Duane	EMC	--
Robert Griffin	EMC	Yes
Ryan Smith	Futurex	--
Walter-John Turnes	Gemini Security Solutions, Inc.	--
Wan-Teh Chang	Google Inc.	--
Darren Krahn	Google Inc.	Abstain
Gershon Janssen	Individual	--
Michael StJohns	Individual	No	[New comments on the NO] 1) FIPS 186-4 is now issued. The document should be updated to reflect this. 2) The values in table 4 are completely wrong. It's bytes not bits, and the values for C_V
Alex Krasnov	Infineon Technologies AG	--
Hal Lockhart	Oracle	--
Valerie Fenwick	Oracle	--
Susan Gleeson	Oracle	Abstain
Hai-May Chao	Oracle	Abstain
Mark Powers	Oracle	Abstain
Dina Kurktchi	Oracle	Abstain
Radhika Siravara	Oracle	Yes
Oscar So	Oracle	Yes	A few typos found: 1) Page 1: "CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMTER_GEN" in the table should be "CKM_DSA_SHAWE_TAYLOR_PARAMETER_GEN" 2) Page 2: "typedef struct CK_DSA_PARAMTER_GEN_PARAM" should be "ty
Michael Stevens	QuintessenceLabs Pty Ltd.	--
John Leiseboer	QuintessenceLabs Pty Ltd.	No	Proposal needs to be updated to fix typos and address other voters' comments.
Stef Walter	Red Hat	--
Robert Relyea	Red Hat	Yes	Re michael's comment: One of the vargaries of the PKCS #11 spec is that size meanings very by algorithm type. Asymmetric algorithms like RSA and DSA have used bits and symmetric algorithms have use by
Doron Cohen	SafeNet, Inc.	--
Ajai Puri	SafeNet, Inc.	Yes
Mark Knight	Thales e-Security	--
Sander Temme	Thales e-Security	Yes
Robert Burns	Thales e-Security	Yes	I vote YES with the following recommended corrections to typos/oversights: 1) Replace all occurrences of FIPS PUB 186-2 and 186-3 with FIPS PUB 186-4. 2) Typo: replace all occurrences of 'PROBAL
Peter Bartok	Venafi, Inc.	--
David Smith	Venafi, Inc.	Abstain	I am not sure of the procedural impact of multiple conditional approvals being raised in voting comments; therefore, I feel it prudent to ABSTAIN at this point. Specifically, if the recommended corre
Janice Cheng	Vormetric, Inc.	--