Re: [TLS] datacenter TLS decryption as a three-party protocol

Derrell Piper <ddp@electric-loft.org> Wed, 19 July 2017 16:36 UTC

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> On Jul 19, 2017, at 6:02 PM, Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com> wrote:
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> At the very least, a standards-track multi-party protocol like that can be something that standards like PCI, HIPAA and others can latch on to and say “Do TLS 1.3 without backdoors unless you really need to and in that case use *this*”.
> 
> That is better guidance than “Do TLS 1.3 without backdoors, unless you really need to and in that case do whatever works for you”

Yes, that’s what I would like to see after today’s meeting too.