Re: [TLS] chairs - please shutdown wiretapping discussion...

[Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 2017-07-10 at 13:54 +0000, Polk, Tim (Fed) wrote:
> First, I do not see this as a “wiretapping discussion” based on my
> reading of 2804, although others may disagree.
>  
> Second, I believe that this discussion should go forward based on
> several points:
> this proposal does not involve any changes to the bits on the wire
> specified in the TLS 1.3 document
> this proposal offers significantly better security properties than
> current practice (central distribution of static RSA keys)
> alternative solutions with significantly worse security properties
> are also feasible under TLS 1.3, and I would like to avoid them!
>  
> We should be in the business of developing pragmatic, interoperable
> solutions with appropriate security properties.  Balancing
> cryptographic security with other security requirements to achieve
> such solutions should be an acceptable path, and pursuing this work
> in the TLS working group gives the IETF the best opportunity to
> influence these solutions.

Certainly, but that doesn't need to happen on this working group, nor
protocols which implement similar solutions need to be called TLS.

regards,
Nikos