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>
>> draft-ietf-uta-tls-bcp-02 should be changed to forbid unsecure use of
>> the truncated_hmac TLS extension
>> (http://www.isg.rhul.ac.uk/~kp/mee-comp.pdf).  You're placing anything
>> like this in "SHOULD NOT" land, but some if it needs to be a clear "MUST
>> NOT".
>>
>
> Do you mean we need to forbid *any* use of "truncated_hmac"? Do you think
> this is a case of MUST NOT?


Those cases that are insecure as shown by that paper should be a MUST NOT.
 Any other use of truncated_hmac is already a SHOULD NOT (because
truncated_hmac doesn't apply to AEAD ciphersuites), which seems adequate.

Bodo
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