Session Key Negotiation

Eric Rescorla ekr at rtfm.com
Wed Nov 30 12:02:09 EST 2005


Will Morton <macavity at well.com> writes:

> Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> May I ask why you don't just use TLS?
>>
>
> I would if I could, believe me. :o)
>
> The negotiated key will be used for both reliable (TCP-like) and
> non-reliable (UDP-like) connections, all tunnelled over a single UDP
> port for NAT-busting purposes.  For the TCP-like component, I want to
> follow TLS as much as possible for obvious reasons.

I hate to sound like an advertisement, but why not use
Datagram TLS? 

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-rescorla-dtls-05.txt

-Ekr

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