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Re: [TLS] Call for consensus to remove anonymous DH

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Wed, 16 September 2015 03:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Call for consensus to remove anonymous DH
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On Tuesday, September 15, 2015 09:00:39 pm Joseph Salowey wrote:
> remove anonymous DH

+1 for replacing anon DH with raw public keys

If it simplifies the protocol in a meaningful way, the switch is worth it. It also makes it easy to allow ECC here without having to define a new pile of anon ECDH suites.


Dave

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