I didn't mention SCADA at all. Did you mean to address this question to Filippo 
or Peter?


> On Sep 23, 2020, at 4:49 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofe...@arm.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Carrick, 
>  
> you note that SCADA is a pretty specific use case. SCADA sounds specific but 
> TLS is used widely in the IoT market. It is even used in devices that use 
> smart cards, which use TLS with PSK to protect their provisioning protocol.
>  
> I am worried that marking a ciphersuite as N with the meaning that it "has 
> not been through the IETF consensus process, has limited applicability, or is 
> intended only for specific use cases" is hard for readers to understand which 
> of these three cases were actually the reason for marking it as “N”. The "has 
> not been through the IETF consensus process" will scare off many people.
>  
> For most people the web is the generic case and everything else is a 
> “specific use case”. Sure, the web is very important but TLS is a generic 
> protocol used in many environments.  
>  
> I don’t understand John’s motivation. The LAKE group makes a decision to 
> remove PSK support. That’s good for them. Does this imply that the TLS group 
> also needs to make the same decision?
>  
> Ciao
> Hannes
>  
> From: Carrick Bartle <cbartle...@icloud.com> 
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 6:19 PM
> To: Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofe...@arm.com>
> Cc: Carrick Bartle <cbartle891=40icloud....@dmarc.ietf.org>; Filippo Valsorda 
> <fili...@ml.filippo.io>; tls@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [TLS] The future of external PSK in TLS 1.3
>  
> Can you justify your reasoning? 
>  
> Which part?
>  
> 
> 
> On Sep 21, 2020, at 2:22 AM, Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofe...@arm.com 
> <mailto:hannes.tschofe...@arm.com>> wrote:
>  
> Hi Carrick, 
>  
> Can you justify your reasoning? 
>  
> The challenge I have with the work on IoT in the IETF that the preferences 
> for pretty much everything changes on a regular basis.
>  
> I don’t see a problem that requires a change. In fact, I have just posted a 
> mail to the UTA list that gives an overview of the implementation status of 
> embedded TLS stacks and PSK-based ciphersuites are widely implemented.  
>  
> Ciao
> Hannes
>  
> From: TLS <tls-boun...@ietf.org <mailto:tls-boun...@ietf.org>> On Behalf Of 
> Carrick Bartle
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 5:31 AM
> To: Filippo Valsorda <fili...@ml.filippo.io <mailto:fili...@ml.filippo.io>>
> Cc: tls@ietf.org <mailto:tls@ietf.org>
> Subject: Re: [TLS] The future of external PSK in TLS 1.3
>  
> I'm also fine with marking psk_ke as not recommended to be consistent with 
> the non-PFS ciphers, but there are plenty of valid use cases that justify 
> keeping dhe_psk_ke as recommended for external PSKs. Several of these use 
> cases are detailed in draft-ietf-tls-external-psk-guidance-00.
>  
>  
>  
> On Sep 19, 2020, at 9:00 AM, Filippo Valsorda <fili...@ml.filippo.io 
> <mailto:fili...@ml.filippo.io>> wrote:
>  
> 2020-09-19 13:48 GMT+02:00 Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz 
> <mailto:pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz>>:
> John Mattsson <john.mattsson=40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org 
> <mailto:40ericsson....@dmarc.ietf.org>> writes:
>  
> >Looking at the IANA TLS registry, I am surprised to see that psk_dhe_ke and
> >especially psk_ke are both marked as RECOMMENDED. If used in the initial
> >handshake, both modes have severe privacy problems,
>  
> PSK is used a fair bit in SCADA.  There are no privacy problems there.  So
> just because there's a concern for one specific environment doesn't mean it
> should be banned for any use.  In particular, I think if a specific industry
> has a particular concern, they should profile it for use in that industry but
> not require that everyone else change their behaviour.
>  
> Indeed, if the SCADA industry has a particular need, they should profile TLS 
> for use in that industry, and not require we change the recommendation for 
> the open Internet.
>  
> Setting Recommended to N is not "banning" anything, it's saying it "has not 
> been through the IETF consensus process, has limited applicability, or is 
> intended only for specific use cases". SCADA sounds like a pretty specific 
> use case.
>  
> I don't have a strong opinion on psk_dhe_ke, but I see no reason psk_ke 
> wouldn't be marked N like all suites lacking PFS.
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