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Re: [tcpinc] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

Daniel B Giffin <dbg@scs.stanford.edu> Wed, 15 November 2017 02:23 UTC

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Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 18:23:25 -0800
From: Daniel B Giffin <dbg@scs.stanford.edu>
To: Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org>
Cc: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, tcpinc <tcpinc@ietf.org>, tcpinc-chairs@ietf.org, The IESG <iesg@ietf.org>, draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Eric Rescorla's Discuss on draft-ietf-tcpinc-tcpcrypt-09: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)
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Kyle Rose wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 3:21 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> >> Interesting. I don't have a strong opinion about this one, but if
> >> there are no (or cheap) tradeoffs, it seems reasonable to use this
> >> construction.
> >
> > The countermeasure that TLS uses seems pretty cheap.
> 
> SGTM. Daniel can chime in here in case he strongly disagrees.

Yes, thanks to Ekr -- we weren't aware of this "multi-user"
problem and the countermeasure.  It looks worthwhile
(trivial performance impact), so we will do it and get an
okay from our local guru on the details.

daniel

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