On Tuesday 29 March 2016 15:09:16 Yoav Nir wrote:
> > On 29 Mar 2016, at 2:15 PM, Hubert Kario <hka...@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > On Friday 25 March 2016 22:07:02 Yoav Nir wrote:
> >>> On 25 Mar 2016, at 8:16 PM, Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_...@hotmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>> I wonder if it would be possible to publish
> >>> draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites as Historic (in the sense of
> >>> RFC
> >>> 6101). It would start with
> >>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01
> >>> ,
> >>> but the ciphersuites 0x60 and 0x61 would be added also as they
> >>> were
> >>> implemented in OpenSSL.
> >>> 
> >>> Yuhong Bao
> >> 
> >> Hi
> >> 
> >> It would be possible but I’m wondering some things:
> >> 
> >> 1. Are the original authors interested, or are there alternative
> >> authors willing to take this on?
> >> 
> >> 2. What is the point?  All of the ciphersuites in there have been
> >> deprecated by some diediedie document or another, and no sane
> >> document author (here or elsewhere) would include any of these
> >> 56-bit
> >> ciphers in any profile for TLS that is intended to provide
> >> security.
> >> So what is the benefit?
> > 
> > 1. Showing why the code points are reserved.
> > 2. Having official list of code points which must not be enabled (so
> > 
> >   that scanners can be complete)
> 
> Right. But this draft does not include RC4, RC2, and a number of other
> bad IDEAs (pun intended), so it’s not a comprehensive list of things
> you shouldn’t be doing.

it's not a die-die-die document. It's a document that will add the IDs 
to https://www.iana.org/assignments/tls-parameters/tls-parameters.xhtml

0x00,0x62 has no intrinsic meaning. TLS_RSA_EXPORT1024_WITH_DES_CBC_SHA 
has.

What to do with them is second step.
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
Web: www.cz.redhat.com
Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkyňova 99/71, 612 45, Brno, Czech Republic

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