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Re: [Cfrg] Security proofs v DH backdoors

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sun, 30 October 2016 11:04 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
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Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> writes:

>Unfortunately, LTS is a non-starter as web browsers are concerned. 

Sure, and if you read the -LTS draft you'll see it's not targeted at web
browsers.  I know that this is probably hard for some people to understand,
but there's a lot (an awful lot) of TLS used outside of web browsers.
Unfortunately, like HTTP/2, this use seems to be mostly ignored (in HTTP/2 it
was explicitly ignored, the response on the WG was "let them eat HTTP 1.1"
when the matter was brought up).

>And it is pretty much non-starter as far as everything else is concerned.

Do you have any basis for saying this, or are you just, I dunno, making random
statements?

>It also does not fix the reasons why web browers [...]
>
>Heck, the web browser vendors don't seem to [...]

As I've already said, there are lots of uses of TLS outside of web browsers.

Yes, it's true, there are!  

TLS 1.3/2.0/whatever-it'll-be-called is TLS-for-web-browsers (and content
providers serving them).  TLS-LTS is TLS for everyone else.

Peter.

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