[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #2464] TLS-RSA-PSK support

Hubert Kario hkario at redhat.com
Tue Aug 18 16:48:25 UTC 2015


On Monday 17 August 2015 15:54:03 Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 05:37:20PM +0000, Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> > Which ciphers are actually needed by PSK users?  My hope is that
> > at this point RC4 and 3DES are not.  It is highly likely that CBC
> > AES-CBC is needed, perhaps also Camellia, but the question is I
> > think worth asking.
> 
> So what's the final resolution of this?  Should we keep or drop
> the new PSK RC4 and PSK 3DES codepoints:
> 
>     TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_RC4_128_SHA              RSA-PSK-RC4-SHA
>     TLS_RSA_PSK_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA         RSA-PSK-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA

how do you define "remove"?

 1. not part of DEFAULT, part of ALL?
 2. part of COMPLEMENTOFALL
 3. behind compile time option
 4. behind #if 0
 5. actually removed from source

1-3 are fine by me, 4 I wouldn't like, I'm against 5

> On a related note (for those also reading the TLS WG list), any
> thoughts on deprecating any or all of the kDHr, kDHd, kECDHr, kECDHe
> ciphers?

if "deprecate" means 1) or 2), I'm all for it
-- 
Regards,
Hubert Kario
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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