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Re: [TLS] Bakeoffs

Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh@iki.fi> Fri, 18 April 2014 12:20 UTC

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> On 16.4.2014, at 13.42, Alfredo Pironti <alfredo.pironti@inria.fr> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 12:09 PM, Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh@iki.fi> wrote:
>> 
>> If someone is trying to get funding for TLS 2.0 and cannot get it because of the consensus in this WG, they should definitely bring it to discussion on this mailing list. Otherwise I think the topic is slightly speculative.
> 
> This is not speculative. I work in the academia, and right now I'm refraining to invest my time (let alone funds) into a TLS proposal because, in the absence of a call for proposals, I deem my time is better invested in other activities.

Thanks for coming forward, so I stand corrected that the issue is not speculative.

> That said, I'll admit that, as long as we have to stick with the current Client/ServerHello negotiation and client speaks first, I see much of the progress one can make being incremental, rather than radically new.

Let's just hope the discussion keeps going after the TLSv1.3 issue is resolved. The WG had a lot of inactivity between TLSv1.2 and now that could have been used better, but it seems that only after several big exploits people are suddenly interested in TLS again.


Juho

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