Re: [TLS] Closing on PSS. PR#1114

2017-12-05 Thread Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos
On Mon, 2017-12-04 at 17:24 -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote: > Hi folks, > > I've put together a PR that attemps to address the PSS issue. > > See: > https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/1114 > > > Because there are platforms which don't have any support for PSS in > the cert validator, at all,

[TLS] Preliminary data on Firefox TLS 1.3 Middlebox experiment

2017-12-05 Thread Eric Rescorla
Hi folks, I now have some preliminary numbers to share with the group based on our Firefox experiments. The executive summary is that our data confirms Google's results. More detail below. EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN This is a forced experiment in which each client tries all the variants. The experiment

Re: [TLS] Preliminary data on Firefox TLS 1.3 Middlebox experiment

2017-12-05 Thread Eric Rescorla
On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: > Hi folks, > > I now have some preliminary numbers to share with the group based on > our Firefox experiments. The executive summary is that our data > confirms Google's results. More detail below. > > > EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN > This is a forced

Re: [TLS] TLS 1.3 draft 22 middlebox interaction

2017-12-05 Thread R du Toit
Thank you for the thoughtful responses so far. I have been working in the middlebox arena for more than 20 years, and I am also concerned about the state of certain implementations. I would like to think that the TLS stack that my team and I maintain have no serious security flaws, but vulnera

[TLS] rfc 6520 TLS heartbeat feature

2017-12-05 Thread Jitendra Lulla
Hi, As tls 1.3 is being worked upon, older work like rfc 6520 and any enhancements to it may not be as important. Also, particularly the TLS heartbeat feature, which has become famous for wrong reasons, is disabled by the SSL implementations eg OpenSSL. I tried to uncover an issue below pertai