Re: Why self describing data formats:

2007-06-21 Thread Will Morton
James A. Donald wrote: In the case of XML, yes there is a parsing engine, and if the structure of the DTD reflects the structure of the algorithm, then indeed it makes things much easier. But usually the committee have not thought about the algorithm, or have unresolved disagreements about

Re: Session Key Negotiation

2005-12-02 Thread Will Morton
Eric Rescorla wrote: May I ask why you don't just use TLS? I would if I could, believe me. :o) The negotiated key will be used for both reliable (TCP-like) and non-reliable (UDP-like) connections, all tunnelled over a single UDP port for NAT-busting purposes. For the TCP-like component, I

Session Key Negotiation

2005-11-30 Thread Will Morton
I am designing a transport-layer encryption protocol, and obviously wish to use as much existing knowledge as possible, in particular TLS, which AFAICT seems to be the state of the art. In TLS/SSL, the client and the server negotiate a 'master secret' value which is passed through a PRNG and used