<font size=2 face="Calibri">Dear SDLS WG members,</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">John and I have completed setting up
the interoperability testing environment and now we are doing a few finishing
touches. Whilst doing this a few questions arose regarding the SDLS EP
standard:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1. In Section E4.2.2 (in the baseline
mode description of Key Activation) and the following key procedures, it
defines the Key ID fields to have a length of 16 bits. And then states:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">"Values 0-65535 shall not be used
to reference session keys."</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Which would be all possible Key IDs
and leave none for any session keys. Can you clarify?</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2. While we are fairly sure it is implied:
Does the M&C procedure Set ARC set the IV instead of the SN parameter
in the regarding cases (e.g. AES-GCM)?</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">3. The standard is not addressing how
to distinguish if a GVCID is regarding the TM or TC channels for the Start
SA procedure. An example to clarify: </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">A mission wants a different SA assigned
on VC 0 for the uplink (e.g. authentication only) than the VC 0 for the
downlink (e.g. authenticated encryption). To be able to set this with the
Start SA procedure, it needs a way to distinguish between the TC and TM
channel mapping to SPIs. As the GVCID is defined as:</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">GVCID = TFVN + SCID + VCID</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">And the 2 bits long TFVN may have the
following values: 01 -> AOS; 10 -> Proximity-1; 00 -> TM- *or*
TC-SDLP</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The GVCID alone is not enough to distinguish
between TC and TM and we are currently using a custom data structure for
unambiguously identifying the channels in the Start SA procedure.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best Regards,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">David Koisser</font><PRE>This message and any attachments are intended for the use of the addressee or addressees only.
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