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Re: [rtcweb] Security architecture: Making ECDSA mandatory

Bernard Aboba <bernard.aboba@gmail.com> Thu, 09 June 2016 15:08 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rtcweb] Security architecture: Making ECDSA mandatory
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It should be merged. 

> On May 25, 2016, at 03:03, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> wrote:
> 
> In my search for status on ECDSA (we're in the process of switching the Chrome default), I came across this in the current draft:
> 
>    All implementations MUST implement DTLS 1.0, with the cipher suite
>    TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA and the DTLS-SRTP protection
>    profile SRTP_AES128_CM_HMAC_SHA1_80.  Implementations SHOULD
>    implement DTLS 1.2 with the TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256
>    cipher suite.  Implementations SHOULD favor cipher suites which
>    support PFS over non-PFS cipher suites and GCM over CBC cipher
>    suites.  [[OPEN ISSUE: Should we require ECDSA?  Waiting for WG
>    Consensus.]]
> 
> I also found Martin's PR. It's 11 months old, still open.
> 
> Can we merge this now?
> 
> 
>> On 06/13/2015 12:06 AM, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> I've opened https://github.com/rtcweb-wg/security-arch/pull/33
>> 
>> This changes the MTI cipher suites to ECDSA and does a little cleanup
>> on the corresponding API requirements to more closely match what has
>> just landed in the W3C specification.
>> 
>> We discussed ECDSA and the only concerns raised were with
>> compatibility.  I've done some testing with other implementations with
>> no issues, and ECDSA seems to be well supported on all those
>> hard-to-upgrade PSTN gateways (thanks to Cullen and Ethan for helping
>> out with checks there and to NIST for creating certification pressure
>> with FIPS-2).
>> 
>> I have an implementation that switches Firefox to ECDSA with P-256 by
>> default.  It's much, much faster.  http://bench.cr.yp.to/ claims that
>> it's 150 times faster on mobile devices for keygen.
>> 
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