Subject: [Seat] Re: Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-usama-seat-intra-vs-post-00.txt
From: Muhammad Usama Sardar <[email-masked]>
To: Ayoub Benaissa <ayoub.benaissa=[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 03:25:55 +0100
List-Id: "Secure Evidence and Attestation Transport (SEAT) WG" <seat.ietf.org>

Hi Ayoub,

On 15.01.26 16:59, Ayoub Benaissa wrote:
> From a practical perspective, I think a post-handshake implementation 
> makes more sense. We have been building an Attested TLS protocol for a 
> web-based application, and we had to do a post-handshake 
> implementation. Intra-handshake requires too much change. For example, 
> you have to reimplement or customize how Nginx (or other) servers 
> speak TLS. This would take months and more to have a standard 
> implementation that is somehow safe to use. It's different in a 
> post-handshake implementation where you can have a full working 
> example in a matter of weeks.

Could you possibly share more details?

Also, we are collecting use cases of attested TLS [0]. Would you be 
willing to share your use case and co-author the use cases draft [0], as 
in write goal, use case and requirement? Thanks.

-Usama

[0] 
https://tls-attestation.github.io/use-cases-and-properties/draft-mihalcea-seat-use-cases.html#section-3