Re: Session Key Negotiation

2005-12-03 Thread Ian G
Will Morton wrote: 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

Re: Session Key Negotiation

2005-12-03 Thread Ben Laurie
Will Morton wrote: 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

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,

Re: Session Key Negotiation

2005-12-02 Thread Richard Salz
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 general, it's probably a good idea to look at existing mechanisms and analyze why they're not

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

Re: Session Key Negotiation

2005-11-30 Thread Eric Rescorla
Will Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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'