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Re: [TLS] Nuking DHE in favour of ECDHE (Was: Re: Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3)

Andrei Popov <Andrei.Popov@microsoft.com> Mon, 31 March 2014 17:15 UTC

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From: Andrei Popov <Andrei.Popov@microsoft.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, "<tls@ietf.org>" <tls@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Nuking DHE in favour of ECDHE (Was: Re: Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3)
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Sorry, can't comment on features/functionality to be delivered in the future, but I would not rule out the possibility of adding pre-1.2 DHE_RSA cipher suites.

Cheers,

Andrei

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From: TLS [mailto:tls-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Peter Gutmann
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Nuking DHE in favour of ECDHE (Was: Re: Confirming Consensus on removing RSA key Transport from TLS 1.3)

Andrei Popov <Andrei.Popov@microsoft.com> writes:

>"Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 update spring 2014"
>adds a couple of DHE_RSA cipher suites: 
>TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384
>TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256

Those are all 1.2 suites with its barely-there deployment, what about adding
pre-1.2 suites as well for the 99.whatever% market penetration the earlier versions have?

Peter.
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