On Dec 22, 2017, at 1:12 PM, John Mattsson <[email protected]> wrote:
> In TLS 1.3, ECC is mandatory to support. This drastically reduces the sizes 
> of certificates and signatures (public key sizes from 384 bytes (RSA and DHE) 
> to 32 bytes (ECDHE) and signatures from 384 bytes (RSA) to 64 bytes (ECDSA 
> and EdDSA) ).

  This doesn't help people with established certificates, business practices, 
etc.

> Anything for older version of TLS would have to be pure recommendations or 
> guidance to preserve backward compatibility. I think we should update the 
> charter to cover guidance on how to handle large certificates and long 
> certificate chains in EAP-TLS with all versions of TLS. This could be handled 
> in the same bullet as “guidance or update to enable the use of TLS 1.3”.

  That would definitely be useful.

  Alan DeKok.

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