Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate
Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Sat, 14 November 2009 08:42 UTC
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate
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On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 02:20:56AM +0000, David-Sarah Hopwood wrote: > Nicolas Williams wrote: > > Comments: > > > > 1) The rest of this comment can be ignored if the use of protocol > > extensions in draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate is deemed to not be a > > problem. > > > > [...] > > The problem is that this unnecessarily breaks cases in which the > possibility of attack couldn't have been prevented (because only > one of the client and server supports the extension), and in which > there may actually be no attack. That's a feature: for how do you know that "there may actually be no attack"?? Either we fix the vulnerability, or we don't. The only middle of the road is a "ask the user if this is OK" (client-side) or "allow but log" (server-side) temporary transition configuration. Nico --
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- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Florian Weimer
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Florian Weimer
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? (was: TLS renegotiation … Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Yngve N. Pettersen (Developer Opera Software ASA)
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Cullen Jennings
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Michael Gray
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Florian Weimer
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Bruno Harbulot
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Blumenthal, Uri - 0662 - MITLL
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? (was: TLS renegotiat… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? (was: TLS renegotiat… Nathaniel W Filardo
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? (was: TLS renegotiat… Nicolas Williams
- [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Robert Relyea
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Dean Anderson
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue David Harrington
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- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Marsh Ray
- [TLS] Simple way to drop re-negotiation in HTTP (… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate.txt Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Simple way to drop re-negotiation in HT… Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Marsh Ray
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Test Server (was TLS renegotiation issu… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] Test Server (was TLS renegotiation issu… Michael D'Errico
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nagendra Modadugu
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Eric Rescorla
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Florian Weimer
- Re: [TLS] Simple way to drop re-negotiation in HT… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Chris Newman
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? (was: TLS renegotiat… Chris Newman
- Re: [TLS] TLS renegotiation issue Bodo Moeller
- Re: [TLS] TLS or HTTP issue? Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
- [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegotiate Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Martin Rex
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… David-Sarah Hopwood
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… David-Sarah Hopwood
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… David-Sarah Hopwood
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Nelson B Bolyard
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… David-Sarah Hopwood
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… David-Sarah Hopwood
- Re: [TLS] Comments on draft-rescorla-tls-renegoti… Bodo Moeller