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Re: [TLS] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-moriarty-tls-oldversions-diediedie-00.txt

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 10 July 2018 14:07 UTC

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nalini elkins <nalini.elkins@e-dco.com> writes:

>It would be nice to see some of this reflected in the draft rather than only
>statistics on browsers.   The real usage of these protocols is far more
>complex.

+1.  It often seems that the only possible use for TLS that gets considered in
these things is web browsers and web servers, or big-iron type servers in
general.  There's a vast amount of TLS that never goes anywhere near a browser
or server of this kind.  In particular, the assumptions that are no longer
valid in this case are:

- CPU and memory is nearly unlimited and nearly free.

- Anything can be easily upgraded at the touch of a button.

- Everyone gets their certs from a commercial CA (that's present in a trust
  database).

- People want the most full-featured, complex protocol possible.

- Users want the latest, trendiest algorithms at all times.

[Feel free to add more to this list, that's just the stuff that springs
 immediately to mind].

In the case of SCADA/embedded, pretty much the exact opposite of all of those
points is the case (the last may be somewhat debatable, it's a reference to
the fact that industry groups are very conservative and tend to stick with
something that has what's regarded as good provenance).

Peter.

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