Anybody else has thoughts on this?

spt

> On Oct 3, 2017, at 18:53, Sean Turner <s...@sn3rd.com> wrote:
> 
> In the IANA registries draft 
> (https://github.com/tlswg/draft-ietf-tls-iana-registry-updates), we’ve added 
> a recommended column to the Cipher Suites (CSs) registry (and some others).  
> Right now, the criteria for getting a recommended mark is AEAD ciphers with 
> strong authentication standards track ciphers.  While that’s great generally, 
> the list we’ve got five CSs that gave Joe and I pause:
> 
> TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8
> TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8
> TLS_PSK_DHE_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8
> TLS_PSK_DHE_WITH_AES_256_CCM_8
> TLS_ECDHE_PSK_WITH_AES_128_CCM_8_SHA256
> 
> The CCM_8 CSs have a significantly truncated authentication tag that 
> represents a security trade-off that may not be appropriate for general 
> environment.  In other words, this might be great for some IoT device but we 
> should not generally be recommending these.
> 
> We’re recommending that these five suites be dropped from the recommended 
> list.  Please let us know what you think.
> 
> J&S
> (editor hats on)

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