Re: [Cose] Key management for MACs (was Re: Review of draft-schaad-cose-msg-01)

Brian Campbell <bcampbell@pingidentity.com> Fri, 10 July 2015 13:07 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Cose] Key management for MACs (was Re: Review of draft-schaad-cose-msg-01)
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On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 10:44 AM, Derek Atkins <derek@ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> writes:
> > We are not doing ourselves a flavor if we place artificial constraints
> > on our protocols that make them pretty insecure in practice. We already
> > have enough insecure IoT devices in the market.
>
> Sure.. Many IoT devices don't even try :)
>

I just want us to be cognizant of the possibility that a dense complicated
crypto messaging syntax will probably not change that situation. If it's
not easy and approachable, it has the potential to be ignored.