Re: replay integrity

2003-07-10 Thread Zooko
Ian Grigg wrote: So, some protocols don't need replay prevention from lower layers because they have sufficient checks built in. This would apply to any protocols that have financial significance; in general, no protocol should be without its own unique Ids. I'll try to make this

Re: replay integrity

2003-07-10 Thread C. Wegrzyn
Zooko, I don't think you actually need to worry about the At-Most-Once semantics you example below. This sort of stuff has been around for decades and there are a number of open source programs available. Don't confuse what TLS does - transport messages securely end-to-end - to what the end

Re: replay integrity

2003-07-10 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
At 02:19 PM 7/9/2003 -0400, Zooko wrote: I'll try to make this concrete. My thesis is different than Ian's -- rather than saying that those apps need less than what TLS offers, I say that they need more! (So that each app need no longer implement the added features itself.) we did two kinds of

RE: SSL

2003-07-10 Thread Whyte, William
[ Jill ] Instead, I have a different question: Where can I learn about SSL? [ Ian ] PS: next step is Ferguson Schneier's recent book which has been described as how to re-invent SSL. This reminds me: the best tutorial on the security aspects of SSL 3.0 that I know of is the Counterpane

Re: replay integrity

2003-07-10 Thread Jeroen C. van Gelderen
On Wednesday, Jul 9, 2003, at 14:19 US/Eastern, Zooko wrote: Ian Grigg wrote: So, some protocols don't need replay prevention from lower layers because they have sufficient checks built in. This would apply to any protocols that have financial significance; in general, no protocol should be

Re: SSL

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Rescorla
Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Grigg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, I have a different question: Where can I learn about SSL? Most people seem to think the RFC is unreadable, so ... As in, could someone reccommend a good book, or online

Re: SSL

2003-07-10 Thread Radia Perlman - Boston Center for Networking
Re: Eric Rescorla's SSL and TLS book: Actually, the price should be $40 US. That's the price at Amazon. Actually on bookpool.com it's $31. And if you can buy something else at the same time, they have free shipping on anything over $40. And let me 3rd or 4th the comment that it's

Re: SSL

2003-07-10 Thread Eric Murray
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:04:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead, I have a different question: Where can I learn about SSL? As in, could someone reccommend a good book, or online tutorial, or something, somewhere, that explains it all from pretty much first principles, and leaves

Re: SSL

2003-07-10 Thread Ng Pheng Siong
On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 12:04:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: guess). However, the complexity of the OpenSSL library has me stumped. (Plus, it's Unix-centric. I'd like to turn it into a Visual Studio port so I could compile without needing cygwin, gcc, etc., but that's another story). It