On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 3:22 AM Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
wrote:

>  Saying
> "lalalalala I'm not listening, I'm not listening" won't deal with the fact
> that there's a staggering amount of gear out there with product lifecycles
> sometimes measured in decades that needs a sound basis for making decisions
> about what to deploy, which this deprecation isn't providing.
>
> Maybe that's the way to resolve this, make it explicit that the deprecation
> applies for web use and not for other uses like SCADA, embedded, or
> anything
> else that needs to take long-term usage into account.
>

I think describing the situation at the time-of-writing would be fine, but
FFDHE should still be deprecated. At some point, one has to consult
decades-old RFCs to interoperate with decades-old implementations. That's
one of the reasons the IETF keeps the documents around.

I'm a bit skeptical of the timelines you're aiming for, though. TLS 1.2 is
from 2008, so anything older than that is deprecated by RFC 8996.
Additionally, I think RFC 9325 covers this issue, and also gives some
guidelines moving forward: "the overall approach is to encourage systems to
move to TLS 1.3."

thanks,
Rob
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