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Re: [TLS] New cipher suites for SRP

Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> Mon, 29 June 2015 13:57 UTC

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From: Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] New cipher suites for SRP
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On Monday 29 June 2015 06:55:59 Tom Wu wrote:
> > +1, provided we do two more things:
> > 
> > 
> >  - Change the negotiation so that user name is not exchanged in the clear
> >  - Change key exchange to do PFS
> 
> 
> SRP already provides PFS automatically.

I'm rather fuzzy about the details (I've read the RFC quite a bit ago), but 
isn't the server key share static in SRP?

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Hubert Kario
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