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Re: [TLS] draft on new TLS key exchange

"Dan Harkins" <dharkins@lounge.org> Fri, 07 October 2011 06:12 UTC

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Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 23:16:05 -0700
From: Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft on new TLS key exchange
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 Oh Jesus, what a typo...

   s/tls-eap/tls-pwd/

  Dan.

On Thu, October 6, 2011 11:13 pm, Dan Harkins wrote:
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> On Thu, October 6, 2011 10:16 pm, Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> Speaking of SRP, I'm told the EKE patent expired a few days ago.
>
>   Yes! This is a good thing.
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>   But EKE cannot be used with elliptic curves and has its own particular
> constraints on what types of finite field domain parameter sets it can
> use (for instance, it can't be used with groups 1-3 in RFC 5054). This
> puts more of a burden on the client in evaluating whether an offer by the
> server should be accepted or not.
>
>   Unlike EKE, the scheme described in draft-harkins-tls-eap can be used
> with any domain parameter set from RFC 3526, RFC 5114 or RFC 5639.
>
>   Dan.
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