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Re: [TLS] Last Call: draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext (Additional Random

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Wed, 21 April 2010 22:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Last Call: draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext (Additional Random
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At 12:05 AM +0200 4/22/10, Martin Rex wrote:
>The IESG wrote:
>>
>> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider
>> the following document:
>>
>> - 'Additional Random Extension to TLS '
>>    <draft-hoffman-tls-additional-random-ext-01.txt> as a Proposed Standard
>
>
>I'm somewhat confused to see a Last Call for this proposal.
>
>We had a discussion on this document on the TLS WG mailing list and
>determined that this proposal is completely unable to achieve
>the stated goal.  This extension is completely bogus.

You came to that conclusion; many other folks disagreed. You stated that you thought it was not useful in some environments, namely with RSA authentication where the client has a broken PRNG. If that is the only environment you care about, then this extension is not useful. TLS is used in many other environments, of course.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium

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