On Oct 13, 2014 1:07 PM, "Yaron Sheffer" <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Hi Stephen,
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> Thanks for your review. Here are a few comments to your comments.
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> On 10/13/2014 07:27 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote:
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>> - s2, 2nd para: "a more systemic solution" is left hanging
>> - do you mean TLS1.3? If so, maybe say so?
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> Actually this is a leftover from the unified attacks+BCP draft, and
that's what is meant.
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>> - 2.6: should the RFC editor wait on the official
>> allocation of the BEAST CVE number? I don't think that's
>> happened already has it?
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> BEAST is fine, this is about BREACH. the CVE number is allocated but
that's about it, and people are citing it. I am not familiar with the CVE
allocation procedures, for all I know it may remain reserved-but-unofficial
forever. I certainly don't want to hold the RFC waiting for it.
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>> - 2.7, is Bleichenbacher really a certificate attack?  I
>> think its not, but is a pkcs#1 encryption attack.  (It
>> would apply just as well to OOB keys in TLS.) I'm not sure
>> if Klima is or is not the same in that respect.  Also the
>> timing attacks in the 2nd para, don't seem to be
>> certificate related are they? So perhaps only the last
>> para is really certificate related?
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> You're right I believe. Need to recheck and maybe rework the title.
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>> - 2.10: isn't TRIPLE-HS published yet?
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> Yes.
http://prosecco.gforge.inria.fr/bibtexbrowser.php?key=BhargavanDFPS14&bib=ourpubs.bib
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>> - 2.12: A reference would be good here if we have one,
>> esp. for the "It is known" point.
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> [Private communication]...
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> http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/uta/current/msg00387.html
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>> - 2.13: Doesn't that paper also blame hard-to-use APIs as
>> well as the IETF protocols and their complexity? Worth a
>> mention?
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> Personally, I don't think it's worth a mention. As they say, it is not
"actionable".

It absolutely is actionable. Don't use complex APIs, switch
implementations, and conduct negative testing.
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