Re: [TLS] Deployment ... Re: This working group has failed

Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> Sun, 17 November 2013 11:53 UTC

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Hi Yoav,

thanks for the response.

I interested in those views only to collect some data points for 
improving the rate of adoption in the future. You might think I am 
strange but I think we should learn from those mistakes and avoid them 
in the future.

 From what you write below I am wondering what TLS libraries these 
problematic servers have been using? Do we know more about that?

Ciao
Hannes

Am 17.11.13 12:12, schrieb Yoav Nir:
>
> On Nov 17, 2013, at 12:30 PM, Hannes Tschofenig
> <Hannes.Tschofenig@gmx.net> wrote:
>
>> Hi Taylor,
>>
>> Would be interesting to hear from someone working for Mozilla (like
>> Ekr, our TLS WG chair) why things are progressing so slowly and
>> what exactly their problem is.
>>
>
> Hi Hannes
>
> We have heard before from people at Google and at Microsoft. Google
> only added TLS 1.2 very recently, and Microsoft added it very early,
> but disabled it by default for a long time.
>
> There were issues with failures of connections attempts using TLS
> 1.2.  There have been issues with 1.1, but 1.2 produced much more of
> them.
>
> 1. TLS 1.2 is the first version to require support of extensions.
> Some servers broke when extensions existed. 2. Some servers broke on
> unrecognized extensions. 3. Some server break on missing extensions -
> certain servers will not accept a TLS 1.2 ClientHello without the
> SignatureAlgorithm extension
>
> Combining 1 & 3, you can't win. Some servers just won't work.
>
> I don't know what changed. Perhaps the percentage of servers that are
> broken like that has diminished. But not it looks like the browser
> vendors have deemed it as sufficiently low to allow them to make this
> on by default.
>
> Yoav
>