On Wed, 2016-07-06 at 17:20 -0500, Laurens Van Houtven wrote: > > Right. The reason I'm being so persistent is similar to why a lot of > cryptographers dislike PAKE -- it's not that it's bad or hard to do -- > it just seems like a weird problem to have. To quote Glyph, it sounded > a bit like a jackhammer problem :)
Sorry for the OT, I find PAKE very useful and we have a draft[1] to get a variant (SPAKE) in the Kerberos protocol. Do you have any reference to documents describing this "dislike" ? I'd like to know more about it. Simo. [1] https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-mccallum-kitten-krb-spake-preauth-00.txt -- Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York _______________________________________________ Cryptography-dev mailing list Cryptography-dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cryptography-dev
