Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 11:46 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > [not speaking for Red Hat] > You seem to believe only valid legal claims can put Red Hat in court. Of course not. Though I'm not aware of anyone making any claims at all over basic non-specially optimized ECDH on prime fields. Perhaps RedHat

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Paul Wouters
On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Gregory Maxwell wrote: I am certainly not ignoring legal concerns. While there are some patented EC cryptographic techniques, the basic infrastructure including ECDH over prime fields was first published back in 1984 and is not patentable. The IETF has published an extensive

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > For the client, clearly CPU is not the limiting factor. For regular TLS > servers, this should also not matter. For fully loaded TLS servers or > TLS accelerators, the factor 3 on the CPU load will matter, but we're > talking clusters of machin

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 09.09.2013 18:12, schrieb Paul Wouters: > On Mon, 9 Sep 2013, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> I don't get it, either >> >> google "dhe versus ecdhe performance" >> >> http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-ssl-perfect-forward-secrecy.html Let’s focus on the server part. Enabling DHE-RSA-AES128-SH

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Paul Wouters
much support forward secrecy in a way *nobody* else on this planet is supporting it and so you repsonse below is uneducated - period Ignoring the obvious legal (and now potential backdoor) problems with ECC is also not very educated. Paul ---- Original-Nachricht ---- Betreff: Re: Fedora/

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Reindl Harald
much support forward secrecy in a way *nobody* else on this planet is supporting it and so you repsonse below is uneducated - period Original-Nachricht Betreff: Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy Datum: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 11:07:29 +0200 Von: Florian Weimer An: Development discuss

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Florian Weimer
On 09/09/2013 11:58 AM, Andrew Haley wrote: On 09/07/2013 12:52 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: Regardless, I think that argument would be an ignorant one: Approximately no one runs non-ECDH PFS on the web: it's insanely slow and it breaks clients. Hmm. Isn't non-ECDH PFS just straight integer (mo

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-09 Thread Andrew Haley
On 09/07/2013 12:52 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Regardless, I think that argument would be an ignorant one: > Approximately no one runs non-ECDH PFS on the web: it's insanely slow > and it breaks clients. Hmm. Isn't non-ECDH PFS just straight integer (mod N) Diffie-Hellman? And that's what is in

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-06 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:31 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > | From: Reindl Harald > | Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:38:21 +0200 > > | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D319901 > | > | looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining > | which does not support EECDHE which is a shame

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-09-06 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier
| From: Reindl Harald | Date: Sat, 24 Aug 2013 11:38:21 +0200 | https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D319901 | | looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining | which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these | days in context of PRISM and more and more Ciphers | are going

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:57:15PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > Not Found > > > > The requested URL /roller/blog/entry/enable_elliptical_curve_diffie_hellman > > was not found on this server. > > > >> http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/26/4468050/facebook-follows-google-with-tough-encryption

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Till Maas
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 04:57:15PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > Am 26.08.2013 16:24, schrieb Chuck Anderson: > > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:17:52AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > >> cause and effect > >> because Fedora does *not* support Ciphers without large performance impacts > >> > >> in

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.08.2013 16:24, schrieb Chuck Anderson: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:17:52AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> cause and effect >> because Fedora does *not* support Ciphers without large performance impacts >> >> in reality without ECDHE you have no way >> go to https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Chuck Anderson
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:17:52AM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: > cause and effect > because Fedora does *not* support Ciphers without large performance impacts > > in reality without ECDHE you have no way > go to https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/ and look at the client-handshakes > practically no c

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.08.2013 13:26, schrieb Jan-Frode Myklebust: > On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:07:29AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: >> On 08/24/2013 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 >>> >>> looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining >>> which does

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 26.08.2013 11:07, schrieb Florian Weimer: > On 08/24/2013 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 >> >> looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining >> which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these >> days in context of PRISM and mo

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Jan-Frode Myklebust
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 11:07:29AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > On 08/24/2013 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > >https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 > > > >looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining > >which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these > >days in conte

Re: Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-26 Thread Florian Weimer
On 08/24/2013 11:38 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these days in context of PRISM and more and more Ciphers are going to be unuseable (BEAST/CRIME we

Fedora/Redhat and perfect forward secrecy

2013-08-24 Thread Reindl Harald
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319901 looks like Redhat based systems are the only remaining which does not support EECDHE which is a shame these days in context of PRISM and more and more Ciphers are going to be unuseable (BEAST/CRIME weakness) ___