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Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Thu, 11 October 2007 18:33 UTC

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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:33:16 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 06:26:27PM +0000, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:23:11 -0700
> Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com> wrote:
> 
> > At Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:21:53 -0500,
> > Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > > On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 08:58:27AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > > > And again, this is an API/local isssue. IETF doesn't do
> > > > those.
> > > 
> > > There you go again.  The IETF most certainly deals in APIs.
> > 
> > Let me rephrase: the IETF generally doesn't deal in APIs with a few
> > prominent exceptions. The TLS-WG has never done so and I don't think
> > it's a good idea to do so now.
> > 
> And certainly not where the goal is this dubious.  I'm with ekr: this
> is a bad idea.

To clarify, I agree as well.  We already know from experience with SASL
that this is a bad idea.


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