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Re: [TLS] TLS Provfiles (Was: Call for consensus to remove anonymous DH)

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 16 September 2015 15:02 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>, Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, "noloader@gmail.com" <noloader@gmail.com>, Tony Arcieri <bascule@gmail.com>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] TLS Provfiles (Was: Call for consensus to remove anonymous DH)
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS Provfiles (Was: Call for consensus to remove anonymous DH)
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Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> writes:

>> An actual profile of TLS would be something like MUST TLS 1.1 or above,
>> MUST PFS suites, MUST AES and SHA256, MUST E-then-M (and by implication
>> what isn't explicitly permitted is denied).
>
>HTTP-2 did this kind of thing, and IIRC are the first to do so.

Some PKI standards have done it too, but mostly because the base standard was
such a mess that you needed a profile just to sort out what needed to be
implemented for anything to work (for some level of "work").  They're such a
design counterexample that I didn't want to mention them in my original
message :-).

Peter.

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