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Re: [TLS] Early code point assignment for draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01

Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> Mon, 11 January 2016 08:03 UTC

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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 10:03:18 +0200
From: Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com>
To: Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Early code point assignment for draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01
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On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 09:28:57AM +0200, Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 07:53:08PM -0800, Joseph Salowey wrote:
> > Please respond if you have concern about early code point assignment for
> > the curves listed in draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01
> > <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-curve25519-01>.
> 
> Wasn't that document effectively merged to RFC4492bis?
> 
> Also, one contention point in recent thread has seemed how to deal
> with THS.

And as terms of my current position on this:

I don't think this is signficant. If you want protection from THS that
actually works, you require EMS anyway (or ensure THS is of no
consequence at application layer), not try to do TLS configuration
"workarounds" (that don't actually work).


-Ilari

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