Re: Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers

2013-08-18 Thread Brian Smith
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Chris Richardson ch...@randomnonce.orgwrote: I believe this plan would have poor side effects. For example, if Apple ships clients with a broken ECDSA implementation [0], a server cannot detect detect if a connecting client is an Apple product and avoid the

Re: Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers

2013-08-18 Thread Brian Smith
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Camilo Viecco cvie...@mozilla.com wrote: Hello Brian I think this proposal has 3 sections. 1. Unifing SSL behavior on browsers. 2. Altering the criteria for cipher suite selection in Firefox (actually NSS) 3. removing certain cipher suites from the default

Re: Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers

2013-08-18 Thread Brian Smith
On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Wan-Teh Chang w...@google.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Rob Stradling rob.stradl...@comodo.com wrote: Wan-Teh, why do you think Firefox should specify a preference for ECDSA over RSA? Because ECDSA is more secure than RSA, and ECC

Re: Proposal to Change the Default TLS Ciphersuites Offered by Browsers

2013-08-18 Thread Brian Smith
On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Gervase Markham g...@mozilla.org wrote: On 09/08/13 18:12, Brian Smith wrote: No, each combination is hard-coded into its own distinct code point that is registered with IANA: