Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-08 Thread Michael Richardson
ulnerable to an active MITM using a different "known public key"? This doesn't happen today with Wifi because a human either picks "CoffeeShop" ESSID, or can validate the cert chain to say "CoffeeShop Inc", but a

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-07 Thread Michael Richardson
the system has been bootstrapped. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-07 Thread Michael Richardson
s that's why it scales O(number of devices), because the responder has to try *all* of the PSK it knows? Wow. With public key technology, one could sign something, send the signature, and let the responder try all the public keys it knows? Basically, just omit the Certificate in the handsha

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-06 Thread Michael Richardson
is probably far more important than anything else because AFAIK, none of the 802.11 or 802.15.4 specifications offer to encrypt the L2 addresses, just the payloads. (I think, but I'm unsure, that the BTLE L2 does encrypt the L2 addresses) -- Michael Richardson , Sande

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-06 Thread Michael Richardson
ly to an authorized operator, which is resistant to an active MITM, given that the new device (the pledge) doesn't know who the authorized operator is yet. Encrypting it via a not-yet-fully authenticated TLS1.3 connection is easy. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-06 Thread Michael Richardson
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > That doesn't mean it needs to be visible in clear after bootstrap. I'm just keeping this here to emphasis the point. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- signature.asc Description:

Re: [perpass] privacy implications of UUIDs for IoT devices

2016-10-06 Thread Michael Richardson
o me that the real problem is that attackers/observers are not forced to reveal their identity first, in order that respondants can ask, "Who wants to know?" first, and also better repell DDoS. (Attackers would have to have validatable identities to even ask) -- Michael Richardson , Sand

Re: [perpass] US intelligence chief says we might use the IoT to spy on you

2016-02-12 Thread Michael Richardson
e, more private) standards for devices to adhere to. Marshall has the advantage of not needing an income in order to be able to work on this stuff. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [perpass] India withdraws encryption policy - Re: India posed to require cleartext, cleartext retention, cipher and backdoor mandates

2015-09-22 Thread Michael Richardson
ool nurse :-) I say this in jest, yet, I'm actually quite serious. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass

Re: [perpass] perpass: what next?

2015-04-30 Thread Michael Richardson
ere were implementations, and you clearly have some... Would there be value to deploy this at IETF meeting networks? -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works| network architect [ ] m...@sandelman.ca

Re: [perpass] perpass: what next?

2015-04-17 Thread Michael Richardson
Tenure Track committees... can we "infiltrate" NSF-like entities in various places. Many ccTLD entities seem to have money to spend on infrastructure initiatives (CIRA, nic.cz, nic.nl, nic.mx are the ones I know about)... maybe there could be some overt coordination here. -- ]

Re: [perpass] EFF, Mozilla et al. announce new free certificate authority...

2014-11-20 Thread Michael Richardson
hould treat them as equal in the UI. Nobody said that unauthenticated TLS should show a "lock" -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- pgpzmoFSXjC9I.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ perpass mailing

Re: [perpass] EFF, Mozilla et al. announce new free certificate authority...

2014-11-20 Thread Michael Richardson
ruct the device to do "letsencrypt" if you can give it a stable name reachable from the letsencrypt people. IPv6 could provide the connectivity. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- pgpF5Nsks5bfl.pg

[perpass] getting rid of appliance/ilom invalid certificate warnings

2014-11-20 Thread Michael Richardson
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > In the case of an ILOM, we can't predict a name or an IP address which the > device can claim... but, the manufacturer usually has a MAC address, Asset > Tag, or other identifier which is often unique. If only *THAT* c

Re: [perpass] EFF, Mozilla et al. announce new free certificate authority...

2014-11-19 Thread Michael Richardson
other identifier which is often unique. If only *THAT* could go into the Location Bar instead of the IP address. Yes, this is user interface thing... sorta.. it's really about a different kind of URI. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Work

Re: [perpass] EFF, Mozilla et al. announce new free certificate authority...

2014-11-18 Thread Michael Richardson
liminate the invalid certificates that seem inevitable from things like ILOMs/iDRAC/etc. because the https interface to the service processor never knows what zone it will use. I'd love to find a way for such appliance uses of HTTPS to come up secure in some way. -- Michael Richardson ,

Re: [perpass] Fwd: FW: I-D Action: draft-farrelll-mpls-opportunistic-encrypt-00.txt

2014-01-14 Thread Michael Richardson
. The MPLS part is pretty much just up-sale marketing... All of this effort would be better spent pushing IKEv1 and L2TP off the map, and making IPv6 + IPsec easier to setup. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Softwar

Re: [perpass] ID based encryption for email

2013-12-31 Thread Michael Richardson
t, a renewed push could have occured. That problem will affect any new solution as well. I look forward to reviewing drafts, and running beta code. Who is going to make money on this system? What's the market incentive to deploy? -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works -= IPv6 I

Re: [perpass] NULL Cipher RFC 2410 to HISTORIC ???

2013-12-09 Thread Michael Richardson
7;t think anyone would be so stupid as to do that kind of thing. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works pgph70PKYd16x.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass

Re: [perpass] NULL Cipher RFC 2410 to HISTORIC ???

2013-12-09 Thread Michael Richardson
he way AES-GCM-type modes work. -- Michael Richardson , Sandelman Software Works pgpolQUZ9IJep.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ perpass mailing list perpass@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/perpass

Re: [perpass] DNS confidentiality

2013-11-13 Thread Michael Richardson
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Re: [perpass] e-mail security idea: server2server PGP

2013-10-23 Thread Michael Richardson
lugins for years (decades?)... the problem is finding and trusting the keys. -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works| network architect [ ] m...@sandelman.ca http://www.sandelman.ca/