On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Eggert, Lars <[email protected]> wrote:

> Nobody will be surprised that I fully agree here. NetApp has both FreeBSD
> and Linux based products, FWIW.
>
> Lars
>
> On 2015-7-23, at 19:50, John-Mark Gurney <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Watson Ladd wrote this message on Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 07:32 -0700:
> >> I'm surprised more weight isn't being given to kernel developers who
> >> don't feel that TLS implementations are of sufficient quality to go
> >> into the kernel. The fact that tcpcrypt is substantially simpler
> >> matters considerably.
> >>
> >> The whole point of tcp encryption is that application authors do not
> >> have to opt-in. They have had years to do so and haven't. We need a
> >> kernel layer solution that everyone can deploy and integrate.
> >
> > I agree...
> >
> > I'm worried by all this additional talk about doing authentication
> > of the channel in the kernel...
> >
> > I've been working on project to accelerate TLS by doing the framing
> > and encryption work in the kernel, and not in userland.  We made the
> > choice of not moving the handshake and certificate validation into
> > the kernel due to it's complexity and high risk for bugs.  Yes,
> > tcpcrypt will have slightly more code than just framing and encryption,
> > but it's vastly more simple than doing anything wrt parsing and
> > validating X.509 certificates.
>

There's not going to be any need to do either of these. I'm working on
the profile, but expect it to be anonymous (EC)DHE, and so not
require certificates.


> > If the TCP-TLS implementation is choosen, it will be significantly
> > longer before it will be integrated into FreeBSD.  The reasons being
> > is that there is no code that can simply be used w/o major auditing
> > and/or rewriting to be secure for use in the kernel.  The tcpcrypt
> > code was written from the start to be used in the kernel.
> >
> > Is there an implementation of TCP-TLS available yet?
>
> We have one under development and expect to have something available
by Yokohama, as discussed in the WG meeting on Monday.

-Ekr


>
>
> --
> >  John-Mark Gurney                             Voice: +1 415 225 5579
> >
> >     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Tcpinc mailing list
> > [email protected]
> > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpinc
>
> _______________________________________________
> Tcpinc mailing list
> [email protected]
> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpinc
>
_______________________________________________
Tcpinc mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tcpinc

Reply via email to