Hiya,

On 23/07/2021 19:32, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
The authors of rfc7525bis have noticed that the Commercial National
Security Algorithm Suite (CNSA) contains some strong recommendations
regarding topics of interest, including 3072-bit RSA, 3072-bit DHE, and
ECDHE with secp384r1. These recommendations and others are summarized in
draft-cooley-cnsa-dtls-tls-profile (currently in the RFC Editor queue
via the Independent Submissions stream). We are wondering if the WG
thinks it makes sense to adopt some of these recommendations and
informatively reference draft-cooley-cnsa-dtls-tls-profile from rfc7525bis.

If the rationale for each such change is explicitly provided
and discussed then I'd be ok with adopting such changes. If
not, then I'd be against.

I have two reasons:

- ISTM one could read that draft as just being a general
"turn it up a notch" which may be reasonable but I've also
heard that once any potential quantum attack is feasible
then 2048->3072 RSA won't really help (for long). So I'm not
sure we should encourage people to make such changes - we
may be better off trying to direct energies into PQC once
the time is right (which it's not yet IMO).

- With all due respect to the author, (whom I do respect),
in the light of dual-ec, I don't think unquestioningly
accepting advice from NSA without an explanation of the
rationale is an acceptable plan, no matter how sane the
advice may appear.

Cheers,
S.


Cheers,
S.


Thanks.

Peter






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