Re: [TLS] TLS 1.2 and sha256

Just to add to this excellent answer  ... there is the signature on the
certificates used, which is independent of the cipher suite that you
negotiate but also commonly uses SHA256. Truly moving from SHA256 would
require CAs, Browsers, etc to adopt something new there too.

On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 2:52 PM, David Benjamin <davidben@chromium.org>
wrote:

> In both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3, SHA-256 isn't hardcoded per se. It's a
> function of the cipher suite you negotiate (and also, separately, the
> signature algorithm you negotiate). That said, in practice, both are pretty
> solidly dependent on SHA-256. Most options involve it. AES-128-GCM and
> ChaCha20-Poly1305 are currently paired with SHA-256 while only AES-256-GCM
> is paired with SHA-384.
>
> We could certainly define new cipher suites for either of TLS 1.2 and TLS
> 1.3 as needed. But defining a new cipher suite for TLS 1.2 doesn't
> magically deploy it for all existing TLS 1.2 servers. Those servers must
> deploy new code, at which point updating your TLS library to include it
> would also pull in TLS 1.3 anyway (or whatever the latest TLS version is by
> then).
>
> So I think there will likely be no point in bothering with TLS 1.2
> allocations at that point. More options means more combinatorial complexity
> for implementations, which means more our rather limited collective
> resources in this space get even more thinly spread.
>
> David
>
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 5:25 PM Daniel Migault <
> daniel.migault@ericsson.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> TLS 1.2 uses sha256 as the prf hash function. When sha256 will not be
>> considered secured, I am wondering if we can reasonably envision
>> deprecating sha256 for TLS 1.2 or if TLS 1.2 will at that time be
>> deprecated in favor of TLS 1.X X>= 3 ?
>>
>> In other words, I am wondering how much we can assume TLS 1.2 is
>> associated to sha256.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Daniel
>>
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Colm