Re: [MLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-mls-protocol-01.txt

Hey all,

I just pushed this new draft to try to consolidate a few major updates
we've done lately:

- Authentication
- Message protection
- Better ECIES nonces

Hopefully this will provide a good basis for discussion at the interim.

--Richard

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 5:31 PM <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:

>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Messaging Layer Security WG of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : The Messaging Layer Security (MLS) Protocol
>         Authors         : Richard Barnes
>                           Jon Millican
>                           Emad Omara
>                           Katriel Cohn-Gordon
>                           Raphael Robert
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-mls-protocol-01.txt
>         Pages           : 43
>         Date            : 2018-09-19
>
> Abstract:
>    Messaging applications are increasingly making use of end-to-end
>    security mechanisms to ensure that messages are only accessible to
>    the communicating endpoints, and not to any servers involved in
>    delivering messages.  Establishing keys to provide such protections
>    is challenging for group chat settings, in which more than two
>    participants need to agree on a key but may not be online at the same
>    time.  In this document, we specify a key establishment protocol that
>    provides efficient asynchronous group key establishment with forward
>    secrecy and post-compromise security for groups in size ranging from
>    two to thousands.
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mls-protocol/
>
> There are also htmlized versions available at:
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-mls-protocol-01
>
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> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mls-protocol-01
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