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Re: [TLS] SRP ?

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Fri, 26 February 2016 07:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] SRP ?
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On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Dan Harkins <dharkins@lounge.org> wrote:
>
>   Hi,
>
> On Wed, February 24, 2016 1:59 pm, Rick van Rein wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Although the lack of modern cipher-suites for SRP makes it not very
>>> attractive these days.
>>>
>> Does anyone know if work on something like "ECSRP" is going on, anywhere?
>>
>> We've recently worked on getting it working with PKCS #11,
>>
>> https://github.com/arpa2/srp-pkcs11
>> https://github.com/arpa2/srp-pkcs11/blob/rfc5054_compat/doc/design/srp-pkcs11.pdf
>>
>> It could be interesting to see if this translates to the Elliptic Curve
>> arena.
>>
>> I heard rumours of alternatives being weighed against one another, but
>> failed to find anything concrete.  Links are quite welcome!
>
>   Well there's TLS-PWD. Works just fine with ECC. Also provides
> for protection of the client username from passive attack.
>
>         https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-pwd-07

As well as my SPAKE2 draft, which can fit in TLS easily. The real
problem here is that there is no reason not to use certificates in a
lot of cases.

>
> Thanks for reminding me to update that draft :-)
>
>   Dan.
>
>> -Rick
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