Re: Quic: the elephant in the room

Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com> Mon, 12 April 2021 16:48 UTC

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From: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@hallambaker.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2021 12:48:28 -0400
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Subject: Re: Quic: the elephant in the room
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On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 12:10 PM Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 11:59:58AM -0400, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
>


> > > As long as it's not over UDP, or otherwise first has a return
> > > routability check.
> >
> > I don't follow.
>
> "No magnification DDoS please"
>

Oh, I have that built into the key exchange phase.


> If you have a low level IoT device, you are probably better off doing
> > path math properly in one trusted device in your network than relying
> > on whatever embedded code is running in your toaster.
>
> Absolutely.  There is a trade-off to make.  Low-power && low-value RPs
> should prefer stapling, or even a local caching recursive resolver to do
> all the lookups and signature verification too.
>

If I was still doing PKIX, my long term plan would be to get rid of OCSP
and move to short lived certs created using thresholded techniques. But I
am not and nobody is paying me to think about that world any more.