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Re: [TLS] Are the AEAD cipher suites a security trade-off win with TLS1.2?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 16 March 2016 19:01 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Colm MacCárthaigh <colm@allcosts.net>, "Paterson, Kenny" <Kenny.Paterson@rhul.ac.uk>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Are the AEAD cipher suites a security trade-off win with TLS1.2?
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Are the AEAD cipher suites a security trade-off win with TLS1.2?
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> I hadn't seen that! I wonder is there an appetite here for including more robust LH in TLS1.2 in some form? I mean a real one; as in - let's it get it into servers and browsers sooner than TLS1.3. 

H2 has padding; put it there.

There is probably zero interest in adding padding to TLS 1.2, especially since the record type is plaintext and could easily be bypassed.

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