[Ghost] This could be really useful

Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg> Sat, 01 August 2015 04:10 UTC

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From: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 23:10:11 -0500
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Subject: [Ghost] This could be really useful
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On Jul 30, 2015 1:35 PM, "Boyle, Vincent M" <vmboyle@nsa.gov> wrote:
> If we can  document actual implementation in some way that is fair and
> accurate (not easily gamed by people with proprietary interests), that
> would be great!

Test suites would go a long way towards documenting implementation
status, and promoting interoperable bug-free implementations. I dream
of a day where we have a full, open source test suite for (say) TLS
that operates at the TCP layer. It attempts to talk various flavors of
correct and incorrect TLS with a client or server, and makes sure the
other responds when it should and doesn't when it shouldn't.

We can hope vendors will use it... but the next step is actually to
push it towards the organizations doing the purchasing.  "Let me run
this test suite against your product.  Turns out it has a bug with CBC
Padding, chokes on extensions it doesn't understand, and is intolerant
if you try to negotiate a higher, unknown protocol version.  Go fix
those bugs, show me the patch, and I'll buy."

-tom