Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TLS 1.3 after all?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 02 December 2015 15:46 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Jacob Appelbaum <jacob@appelbaum.net>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TLS 1.3 after all?
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Encrypting record headers: practical for TLS 1.3 after all?
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>Again, I'm surprised that no one is attacking the crypto design that Bryan offered...

They are.  Security is about trade-offs, and the questions have been if the benefit is worth the complexity.  People are assuming that it works.