Re: [TLS] Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3

["Ackermann, Michael" <[e-mail]>]

I understand your concern over what the nation-state actors are doing but it is not the same as what Enterprises do to manage their private servers, networks and clients.        
 
Your final paragraph is quite a constructive question.   "What specifically would you have us do? What do you want in the protocol that enables your needs, but doesn't make it possible for everyone in the world to be surveilled?  Please, make some specific suggestions."

My personal perspective would be, that the approach to achieving an answer to that important question, would start with:

1.  Gathering  protocol neutral requirements from all involved factions,  (with help and suggestions from people on the TLS list)

2.   Brainstorming session(s) with people on the TLS list as well potential users/operators, with objectives that include the design of a solution that meets (hopefully) all known requirements.  

What I would like to see come out of the debate we seem to be currently involved in,  is the realization that significant operational/management  issues exist with TLS 1.3 and that the IETF is taking them seriously enough to at least begin dialogue intended to address these issues, and potentially work together to craft related solution(s).   In my view this issue is far too complex &  pervasive to believe that any one person or group's perspective would produce a viable overall solution.  

Again, let me restate,  I don't think anyone is saying that we MUST have RSA.    But, we, as the clients of the IETF TLS protocol, would like to work with you to assure we have workable, manageable  and affordable solutions,  that meets our needs as well as the needs of others.

-----Original Message-----
From: Salz, Rich [mailto:[e-mail]] 
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2016 10:10 PM
To: Ackermann, Michael <[e-mail]>; Pawel Jakub Dawidek <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
Subject: RE: [TLS] Industry Concerns about TLS 1.3

>   This lack of scope, depth and detail [in MITM infrastructures] are 
> what drove us to install the packet collection infrastructures 
> (debugging networks I think some are saying).

At the risk of repeating myself and flogging this dead horse...  What you are doing is exactly what the nation-state actors are doing.  I bet that some even use that exact phrase of "packet collection infrastructure." 

I understand that if you want to use TLS 1.3, it is going to be expensive and/or inconvenient; you're going to have to educate regulators and get bespoke TLS endpoint solutions from vendors. Perhaps you can get the NSA's to stop collecting everyone's Internet traffic for future decoding?

Less flippantly, what specifically would you have us do? What do you want in the protocol that enables your needs, but doesn't make it possible for everyone in the world to be surveilled?  Please, make some specific suggestions.
 



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