Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Also manually forwarded on behalf of Peter Gutmann. As before, if you reply, don't credit me with the text, it is his. From pgut001 Fri Mar 26 14:44:54 2010 To: b...@links.org, nicolas.willi...@sun.com Subject: Re: Against Rekeying Cc: cryptography@metzdowd.com, pe...@piermont.com, si

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:22:06AM -0400, Peter Gutmann wrote: I missed that in his blog post as well. An equally big one is the SSHv2 rekeying fiasco, where for a long time an attempt to rekey across two different implementations typically meant drop the connection, and it still does for the

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Peter Gutmann (alt)
Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: I made much the same point, but just so we're clear, SSHv2 re-keying has been interoperating widely since 2005. (I was at Connectathon, and while the details of Cthon testing are proprietary, I can generalize and tell you that interop in this

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-26 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:31:45PM +1300, Peter Gutmann (alt) wrote: Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com writes: I made much the same point, but just so we're clear, SSHv2 re-keying has been interoperating widely since 2005. (I was at Connectathon, and while the details of Cthon

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Mar 23, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing what people

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Joseph Ashwood
-- From: Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com Subject: Against Rekeying I'd be interested in hearing what people think on the topic. I'm a bit skeptical of his position, partially because I think we have too little experience with real world

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Simon Josefsson
Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com writes: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing what people think on the

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Adam Back
Seems people like bottom post around here. On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Nicolas Williams nicolas.willi...@sun.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:42:38AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Stephan Neuhaus
On Mar 23, 2010, at 22:42, Jon Callas wrote: If you need to rekey, tear down the SSL connection and make a new one. There should be a higher level construct in the application that abstracts the two connections into one session. ... which will have its own subtleties and hence probability

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Jon Callas
On Mar 24, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Stephan Neuhaus wrote: On Mar 23, 2010, at 22:42, Jon Callas wrote: If you need to rekey, tear down the SSL connection and make a new one. There should be a higher level construct in the application that abstracts the two connections into one session.

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread John Ioannidis
I think the problem is more marketing and less technology. Some marketoid somewhere decided to say that their product supports rekeying (they usually call it key agility). Probably because they read somewhere that you should change your password frequently (another misconception, but that's

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Ben Laurie
On 24/03/2010 08:28, Simon Josefsson wrote: Perry E. Metzger pe...@piermont.com writes: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 01:24:16PM +, Ben Laurie wrote: Note, however, that one of the reasons the TLS renegotiation attack was so bad in combination with HTTP was that reauthentication did not result in use of the new channel to re-send the command that had resulted in a need for

Re: [Not] Against Rekeying

2010-03-25 Thread james hughes
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html On Mar 23, 2010, at 4:23 PM, Adam

Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Perry E. Metzger
Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing what people think on the topic. I'm a bit skeptical of his position,

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing what

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Bill Frantz
On 3/23/10 at 8:21 AM, pe...@piermont.com (Perry E. Metzger) wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing: http://www.educatedguesswork.org/2010/03/against_rekeying.html I'd be interested in hearing

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:42:38AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 11:21:01AM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote: Ekr has an interesting blog post up on the question of whether protocol support for periodic rekeying is a good or a bad thing:

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Jon Callas
I'd be interested in hearing what people think on the topic. I'm a bit skeptical of his position, partially because I think we have too little experience with real world attacks on cryptographic protocols, but I'm fairly open-minded at this point. I think that if anything, he doesn't go far

Re: Against Rekeying

2010-03-23 Thread Adam Back
In anon-ip (a zero-knowledge systems internal project) and cebolla [1] we provided forward-secrecy (aka backward security) using symmetric re-keying (key replaced by hash of previous key). (Backward and forward security as defined by Ross Anderson in [2]). But we did not try to do forward