Re: [saag] Possible backdoor in RFC 5114

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 11 October 2016 04:14 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: "Mark D. Baushke" <mdb@juniper.net>, Tero Kivinen <kivinen@iki.fi>
Thread-Topic: [saag] Possible backdoor in RFC 5114
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Subject: Re: [saag] Possible backdoor in RFC 5114
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Mark D. Baushke <mdb@juniper.net> writes:

>Perhaps we need to have a similar document for TLS and S/MIME as well?

The TLS one already exists:

https://www.ietf.org/id/draft-gutmann-tls-lts-05.txt

It's just hung up in the TLS WG, which is getting a bit annoying since there
are at least two vendors who have either shipped or are ready to ship
implementations based on it...

Peter.