Re: Version Ossification: Intended Scope for QUICv1

Jana Iyengar <jri.ietf@gmail.com> Tue, 05 November 2019 01:23 UTC

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From: Jana Iyengar <jri.ietf@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 17:23:11 -0800
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Subject: Re: Version Ossification: Intended Scope for QUICv1
To: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>
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On Sun, Nov 3, 2019 at 1:46 PM Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net> wrote:

> Why can't servers just bake the "keys" into binaries?  I mean, that's not
> something that is likely to get lost.  And it isn't really the case that
> keys need to be secret, they just have to change often enough to frustrate
> attempts to fixate on them.
>

This is a fine idea, but how does it change anything? Whenever the keys are
rotated at the server, you would still have to deal with old versions
appearing at the server, no?