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[TLS] New cipher suites for SRP

"Attila Molnar" <attilamolnar@hush.com> Fri, 26 June 2015 23:48 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] New cipher suites for SRP
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Hello,

Currently SRP cannot be used with newer crypto primitives such as ciphers in
AEAD mode or SHA-2 due to the lack of cipher suites enabling these.
There's only 3DES and AES-CBC with SHA-1.

Would there be support for expanding the SRP cipher suites?

Regards, Attila

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