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Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 28 March 2019 01:30 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Björn Haase <bjoern.m.haase@web.de>, "cfrg@irtf.org" <cfrg@irtf.org>
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] dragonfly, was: Re: Time to recharter CFRG as a working group? Was: Re: [secdir] ISE seeks help with some crypto drafts
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Björn Haase <bjoern.m.haase@web.de> writes:

>Were the points I mentioned above regarding problems with dragonfly
>considered beforehand on this list? I would believe that these points are so
>obvious that getting consensus on these aspects among implemention-oriented
>cryptographers would be easy to establish.

There's also the recent "Here be Dragons: A Security Analysis of WPA3’s SAE
Handshake", with the telling comment:

  We consider it very concerning that a modern security protocol is vulnerable
  to our presented attacks. Equally troublesome is that some of our attacks
  could have been prevented, if the designers incorporated all criticisms that
  the Dragonfly handshake received while it was being standardized.

The problem with Dragonfly was that it was published via the IRTF rather than
the standard manner of publishing at an academic conference, doing an end-run
around the academic peer-review process, and that many of the issues pointed
out were simply ignored, with the consequences being as per the above comment.

Peter.

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