Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate and MITM resistance

David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah@jacaranda.org> Mon, 09 November 2009 19:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate and MITM resistance
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Marsh Ray wrote:
> Yair Elharrar wrote:
>> In addition, until such time that all clients in the world start
>> supporting this extension (e.g. kiosks in airports), servers will
>> have to support backward compatibility.
> 
> It will be a trade-off for each server admin to weigh and decide their
> policy. I suspect many admins will prefer not to allow insecure
> connections from unpatched airport kiosks.

To prevent this attack, they don't have to disallow connections, only
renegotiations in which the extension is not used.

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