Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-19 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:19:22PM +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > > > On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > > > I understand that for the current digest algos implemented in the > > legacy provider the problem might not be as pressing as these > > algorithms are not widely used however

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-17 Thread Tim Hudson
My view point (which has been stated elsewhere) is that OpenSSL-3.0 is about internal restructuring to allow for the various things noted in the design documents. It is not about changing the feature set (in a feature reduction sense). In future releases we will make the mixture of providers

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-17 Thread Salz, Rich
> If DSA is almost never used, why enable it by default? I am amused/bemused that, after years of saying we do not know what people are doing with OpenSSL, it now is now becoming common practice to blithely assert "this is not used" when it fits the personal viewpoint of some folks.

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 03:06:28PM -0400, Viktor Dukhovni wrote: > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:27:44PM +, Salz, Rich wrote: > > > >>DSA > > > > > > What is the cryptographic weakness of DSA that you are avoiding? > > > > It's a good question. I don't recall the

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-16 Thread Viktor Dukhovni
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:27:44PM +, Salz, Rich wrote: > >>DSA > > > > What is the cryptographic weakness of DSA that you are avoiding? > > It's a good question. I don't recall the specific reason why that was > added to > the list. Perhaps others can comment.

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 02:58:42PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: > Wouldn't it be better to make the legacy provider opt-out? I.E. require > explicit configuration or explicit API call to not load the legacy > provider. I'm not even sure why they need to move to a different provider (at this time).

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 16:25 +0200, Richard Levitte wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:15:01 +0200, > Tomas Mraz wrote: > > So saying this is "just recompliation and configuration change" is > > at least somewhat oversimplified. > > > > But I am OK with that. I'm just saying it should be better > >

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Salz, Rich
>>DSA > > What is the cryptographic weakness of DSA that you are avoiding? It's a good question. I don't recall the specific reason why that was added to the list. Perhaps others can comment. The only weakness I know about is that if you re-use the nonce, the

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Richard Levitte
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 16:15:01 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > So saying this is "just recompliation and configuration change" is > at least somewhat oversimplified. > > But I am OK with that. I'm just saying it should be better advertised > and that internally openssl should not use the "load legacy

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Matt Caswell
On 15/07/2019 15:15, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:48 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: >> >> On 15/07/2019 14:43, Tomas Mraz wrote: >>> On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: > IMO this is a major release and

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:48 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > > On 15/07/2019 14:43, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > > > On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > > > > > > IMO this is a major release and therefore we should be taking the > > >

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Salz, Rich
>DSA What is the cryptographic weakness of DSA that you are avoiding?

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Matt Caswell
On 15/07/2019 14:46, Salz, Rich wrote: > >>DSA > > What is the cryptographic weakness of DSA that you are avoiding? It's a good question. I don't recall the specific reason why that was added to the list. Perhaps others can comment. Matt

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Matt Caswell
On 15/07/2019 14:43, Tomas Mraz wrote: > On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: >> >> On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> if the Subject was already fully discussed and thought through then >>> please disregard this but otherwise I'd like this e-mail

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Tomas Mraz
On Mon, 2019-07-15 at 14:19 +0100, Matt Caswell wrote: > > On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > if the Subject was already fully discussed and thought through then > > please disregard this but otherwise I'd like this e-mail to be a > > starting point for discussion. >

Re: Do we really want to have the legacy provider as opt-in only?

2019-07-15 Thread Matt Caswell
On 15/07/2019 13:58, Tomas Mraz wrote: > Hi everyone, > > if the Subject was already fully discussed and thought through then > please disregard this but otherwise I'd like this e-mail to be a > starting point for discussion. > > I suppose the current intention is to make the legacy provider