Hi Nimrod,

Thanks for your comments and apologies for the slow response time.

From: Uta <uta-boun...@ietf.org> on behalf of Nimrod Aviram 
<nimrod.avi...@gmail.com>
> Coauthor of draft-bartle-tls-deprecate-ffdhe here (the document is
> undergoing reorganization, and the work-in-progress state can be found
> here).
>
> draft-ietf-uta references the deprecate-ffdhe draft as a future TODO
> item in Section 6.4.  There are a few notable differences between the
> recommendations in the two drafts:
>
> - The draft-ietf-uta lists RSA key exchange as a SHOULD NOT. We've had
> similar discussions in the TLS WG, and I argue that RSA should be a
> MUST NOT. We've had support for this on the TLS WG.
>
> - The wording in Section 4.1 of draft-ietf-uta implies that using
> finite field DHE cipher suites is generally good practice. Most web
> client implementations have dropped support for finite field DHE.
> Further, the Introduction of WIP draft-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex
> lists problems affecting finite field DHE, especially when exponents
> are reused. These problems are arguably severe enough to make exponent
> reuse a MUST NOT. Section 6.4 has both static finite field DH and
> exponent reuse as a SHOULD NOT.
>
> - On a side note, the list of recommended cipher suites in Section 4.2
> is a subset of the recommended cipher suites in the "Intermediate"
> configuration in Mozilla's Server Side TLS Guide. Could one of the
> authors please explain the rationale for this difference?
>
> Obviously, my recommendations are reflected in the WIP
> draft-tls-deprecate-obsolete-kex:
> (please excuse the brevity)
> - MUST NOT use (non-ephemeral) DH cipher suites.
> - SHOULD NOT use non-ephemeral ECDH.
> - Finite field DHE: MUST NOT reuse exponents, MUST use a well-known
>   group.
> - MUST NOT use RSA key exchange.
>
> I look forward to your responses.
>
> best, and happy holidays,
> Nimrod

Please see https://github.com/yaronf/I-D/pull/290

cheers!
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