On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <d...@fifthhorseman.net>
wrote:

> On Tue 2017-05-02 14:57:54 -0500, Nico Williams wrote:
> > Well, I did say that to me there's not much difference to _me_ between
> > "connections reusing the same ticket can be correlated to each other"
> > and "connections reusing the same ticket can be correlated to each other
> > and the connection whence the ticket".  Others might disagree,
>
> I disagree, Nico! :)
>
> The difference here is between saying:
>
>  * clients that want the latency benefit of session resumption can be
>    careful to avoid ticket reuse and their connections will be
>    unlinkable to a network observer who records session IDs.


> versus:
>
>  * clients that want the latency benefit of session resumption must
>    accept that a network observer can trivially know that each
>    connection is linkable to the previous one.
>

Agreed with your summary, but just a small note: clients might also want
forward secrecy which is why I was suggesting that clients be able to
request/enforce a STEK-less ticket.

-- 
Colm
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