Re: QUIC + Noise

Robin MARX <robin.marx@uhasselt.be> Wed, 21 April 2021 12:13 UTC

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From: Robin MARX <robin.marx@uhasselt.be>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 14:12:35 +0200
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Subject: Re: QUIC + Noise
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The prototype implementation Dirkjan mentions is related to a paper "nQUIC:
Noise-Based QUIC Packet Protection" [1]
that was presented at the EPIQ workshop in 2018, and which includes more
details on this concept.

With best regards,
Robin

[1]: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/028.pdf

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021 at 13:40, Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl> wrote:

> Since another thread (that I don't want to participate in) discussed
> ideas about reusing parts of the QUIC specification without relying on
> the web PKI, I thought I might mention that we have some experiments
> going on in Quinn with using QUIC with the Noise protocol. As far as I
> know, this has been discussed before, and there was a prototype
> implementation a few years ago [1]. Find out more in the issue
> discussion [2] and in the repo for the Noise plugin [3].
>
> If anyone is interested in moving this forward, I'd be happy to
> discuss either here (if considered on-topic), in the Quinn Matrix
> channel [4] or on Slack.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dirkjan
>
> [1] https://github.com/rot256/ninn
> [2] https://github.com/quinn-rs/quinn/issues/719
> [3] https://github.com/ipfs-rust/quinn-noise
> [4] https://matrix.to/#/#quinn:matrix.org
>
>

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