[CFRG] Re: On the applied cryptography of Attested TLS

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Hi Thomas,
Inline with [WN]


On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 9:20 AM Thomas Fossati <tho.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Nov 6, 2026 at 5:03 AM Muhammad Usama Sardar
<muhammad_usama.sardar@tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> [...] More related to this RG, the Intra-handshake.fail paper [2] already has an initial cryptographic proof of insecurity. 41+ GHSAs and 16 published CVEs in [30] attest to the proof of insecurity of early attestation.


Furthermore, all of the CVEs that I sampled were simple implementation
bugs: don't make a fuss of it -- just go and fix them! ;-)
[WN] Could you indicate CVEs you sampled? I genuinely doubt that sampling covers any land.

Thanks,
Waqas