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Re: [Cfrg] Handling invalid points

Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> Tue, 25 November 2014 15:01 UTC

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On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 5:08 AM, D. J. Bernstein <djb@cr.yp.to> wrote:
> Isn't TLS actually moving to
> something much more confidence-inspiring than such patches, namely
> hashing more inputs?"

Yes, the extended-master-secret draft[1] (i.e. what the master secret
should always have been) is in last call at the moment.

I believe this requires less thinking than worrying about requiring
contributory behaviour in the DH operation.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-session-hash-03


Cheers

AGL

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