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Re: [TLS] Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3

Dan Brown <danibrown@blackberry.com> Fri, 23 September 2016 15:14 UTC

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From: Dan Brown <danibrown@blackberry.com>
To: 'Hugo Krawczyk' <hugo@ee.technion.ac.il>, BITS Security <BITSSecurity@fsroundtable.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3
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Weaker crypto to stop insider attacks, is that the request? (And practice?) Doesn’t that increase the risk of larger (but perhaps rarer) further insider attacks?

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3

If the problem is the use of forward secrecy then there is a simple solution, don't use it.

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