Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document
Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 15 December 2014 11:52 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG document
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On 15/12/14 11:16, Yoav Nir wrote: > But I would really like to know who needs a PAKE right now. PAKEs > require the server to store the cleartext password or a password > equivalent, creating a security issue that is potentially worse than > sending cleartext passwords through authenticated channels (as in > form-based or basic authentication to a TLS-protected server) +many - PAKEs are IMO cool but mostly-useless crypto for exactly this reason (and before others disagree, yes, I know some folks disagree:-) If however, CFRG folk want to work on 'em I've no objection but just so you all know, there is no horde of IETFers waiting with bated breath for more PAKE protocol options. There are to be fair a quite small number of sensible people who do figure there's a niche there to fill though (Dan H. for example but not sure who else), so I could of course be wrong about that. As I understand it, the niche Dan has in mind is for signing up to get a certificate in a PKI, where the password is used to authenticate the certificate request. Even in that case, I'm not convinced that PAKEs add value - esp since a one (or limited) time use password could be better there and requires no new crypto. It's also fair to say that the IETF hasn't ever done any kind of generic consensus call on the (lack of) value of PAKEs, and the IETF does have a history of adding PAKE options to protocols, (for some to me unfathomable reason:-) so the above is just my personal opinion. S.
- [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG docu… Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Rene Struik
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … David Leon Gil
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Yoav Nir
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Stephen Farrell
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Michael Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Derek Atkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Andy Lutomirski
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Paul Lambert
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Paul Lambert
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Tom Yu
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Andy Lutomirski
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Alexey Melnikov
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Adam Langley
- Re: [Cfrg] Adoption of draft-ladd-spake2 as a RG … Paul Lambert
- [Cfrg] On the topic of the SPAKE2 draft Paul Lambert
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … D. J. Bernstein
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Mike Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Andrey Jivsov
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Alyssa Rowan
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Salz, Rich
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Damien Miller
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Dan Harkins
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Mike Hamburg
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Watson Ladd
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian (was: Adoption of … Yoav Nir
- Re: [Cfrg] Point format endian Michael Clark