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Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 draft-07 sneak peek

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Mon, 06 July 2015 21:35 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> writes:

>All prior protocol versions, including SSLv3, are using RSA signatures with a
>278-bit hash (a concatenation of sha1+md5), which is a reasonable and
>conservative design.  

It's also a totally nonstandard design that's a perpetual headache to support
when you're dealing with crypto devices and other things.  The move to a
standard, widely-supported scheme should have been made ages ago, long before
TLS 1.2.

Peter.

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