Re: [TLS] chairs - please shutdown wiretapping discussion...

["Ackermann, Michael" <[e-mail]>]

+1 !!!

And
For the enterprise situations,  we typically own, operate and manage the involved "Facilities":
The Servers
The Applications
The Networks
The Keys
The Data
and in Many cases the clients as well

Given the above scenario,  I do not understand how this can be construed as "Wiretapping".    2804 seems to make this clear.

What Enterprises want in this space, is the ability to continue to have access to their aforementioned facilities,  to perform diagnostics, monitoring and security functions.   (i.e. continue to effectively operate and manage our networks).  Although I believe the Matt Green draft proposes a very good, viable and well thought out solution for TLS 1.3,  I suspect most of us are open to different or better solutions,  if such exists or can be conceived.
There seems to be good discussion, requirements and ideas on both sides of this issue,  albeit in sharp disagreement in many cases.      Such critical colloquy,  with significant long term impact,  should not be prematurely terminated,  IMHO.


Finally an editorial comment from those of us TRYING to get Enterprises involved at IETF.   We finally have some interest and engagement from Enterprise perspectives.     Killing discussion on this issue,  which is clearly important to Enterprises, will send the message that IETF did not really want this input or feedback.      I hope this is not the case.

From: TLS [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf Of Polk, Tim (Fed)
Sent: Monday, July 10, 2017 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: [TLS] chairs - please shutdown wiretapping discussion...

First, I do not see this as a "wiretapping discussion" based on my reading of 2804, although others may disagree.

Second, I believe that this discussion should go forward based on several points:

  1.  this proposal does not involve any changes to the bits on the wire specified in the TLS 1.3 document
  2.  this proposal offers significantly better security properties than current practice (central distribution of static RSA keys)
  3.  alternative solutions with significantly worse security properties are also feasible under TLS 1.3, and I would like to avoid them!

We should be in the business of developing pragmatic, interoperable solutions with appropriate security properties.  Balancing cryptographic security with other security requirements to achieve such solutions should be an acceptable path, and pursuing this work in the TLS working group gives the IETF the best opportunity to influence these solutions.





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