Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-05.txt
Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Wed, 19 August 2009 22:37 UTC
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Subject: Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings-05.txt
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On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:25:38AM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> writes: > > But I don't want to guess at what might happen in the future > > of digital signatures. > > I agree, we could decide to not resolve this concern. > > > Instead I'd rather either say either that tls-server-end-point CB is > > undefined if the cert's signature alg does not use a signature, or > > pick a hash function (e.g., SHA-512) to use in such cases. > > If use of SHA-512 is hard-coded, we run into problem when it is phased > out. Negotiation any other hash function will be tricky. Alas, I'm not > sure leaving it undefined is any better: negotiating what hash function > to use in that situation seems equally tricky. I chatted with Jeff Hutzelman about this, and we both concluded that leaving tls-server-end-point undefined in this case is acceptable because we could change the spec to define tls-server-end-point for such signature algorithms when they arise. > This is one reason where deriving channel binding data from the TLS > channel using tls-extractor appears more robust: it leaves negotiation > of the hash function to the TLS protocol. tls-unique does that already (though not using the extractor). We're talking about end-point channel binding types here, which are independent of actual channels, therefore we couldn't use the extractor. Nico --
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Simon Josefsson
- [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel-bin… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Simon Josefsson
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Jeffrey Hutzelman
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Peter Saint-Andre
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams
- Re: [TLS] "Last call" on draft-altman-tls-channel… Nicolas Williams