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Re: [TLS] Still missing: TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_AES_xxx_GCM_SHAxxx

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Thu, 13 March 2014 04:50 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Still missing: TLS_ECDH_anon_WITH_AES_xxx_GCM_SHAxxx
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Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:

>0) either the software or the admin must manually provision the certificate
>for the server; this means making decisions about questions that don't
>necessarily have any good answers, which is not a situation you want your
>users to be in.  Servers operating in a pool now need to have some sort of
>secret key distribution mechanism, for example.

One option for this is for the server to auto-generate the cert on first
install/setup.  The alternative that's currently used on way too many devices
is for them to have a pre-generated generic cert with incorrect ID information
with the private key shared across all devices.

Peter.

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