On Aug 13, 2014 10:30 AM, "Will Sargent" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> There's a typo on "Triple Hanshake" and "the are" instead of "there are".
>
> The mention of AES-GCM is only optimal if using hardware and counters
(see the router link below), otherwise the random nonce is too small. I'm
not sure if this is a practical issue for implementations.

It is: don't use a random nonce with GCM, because it turns into an ntwice.
>
> I would like if the implementation issues section had a section on
libraries not filtering out obsolete signature algorithms and cipher
suites, and not checking small key sizes (even on the root certificate):
>
>
http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-roster-of-tls-cipher-suites-weaknesses.html
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:MD5and1024
> http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/policy.html
>
> Additionally, the URL to Georgiev2012 is to
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2382196.2382204 which is a paywalled site: it
would be more effective for readers if it pointed to the accessable URL
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_ccs12.pdf
>
> Will Sargent
> Consultant, Professional Services
> Typesafe, the company behind Play Framework, Akka and Scala
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]>
wrote:
>>
>> Dear UTA folks,
>>
>> This version incorporates feedback from shortly before, during and
following the Toronto meeting. The changes are:
>>
>>    o  Added implementation issues ("most dangerous code"),
>>       renegotiation, triple handshake.
>>
>>    o  Added text re: mitigation of Lucky13.
>>
>>    o  Added applicability to DTLS.
>>
>> Please review and comment on the list.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>         Yaron
>>
>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks-02.txt
>> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 04:25:18 -0700
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]>, Ralph Holz <[email protected]>,
Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]>, Ralph Holz <[email protected]>, Peter
Saint-Andre <[email protected]>, Yaron Sheffer <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks-02.txt
>> has been successfully submitted by Yaron Sheffer and posted to the
>> IETF repository.
>>
>> Name:           draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks
>> Revision:       02
>> Title:          Summarizing Current Attacks on TLS and DTLS
>> Document date:  2014-08-12
>> Group:          uta
>> Pages:          10
>> URL:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks-02.txt
>> Status:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks/
>> Htmlized:       http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks-02
>> Diff: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-uta-tls-attacks-02
>>
>> Abstract:
>>    Over the last few years there have been several serious attacks on
>>    TLS, including attacks on its most commonly used ciphers and modes of
>>    operation.  This document summarizes these attacks, with the goal of
>>    motivating generic and protocol-specific recommendations on the usage
>>    of TLS and DTLS.
>>
>>
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