[Cryptography] TLS/DTLS Use Cases

Peter Bowen pzbowen at gmail.com
Sat Apr 5 10:22:28 EDT 2014


On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Patrick Pelletier
<code at funwithsoftware.org> wrote:
> On 4/1/14, 12:10 PM, Bill Frantz wrote:
>
>> As the principal instigator of using use cases to think about the
>> proposed TLS 1.3, I have been trying to come up with a small number of
>> use cases that cover most of the application space. So far for TLS I have:
>>
>>    HTTP -- the original SSL use case
>>    Email -- POP, SMTP, IMAP which are not well served by TLS
>> authentication
>>
>>    Are there any others that should be included?
>
>
> Don't forget XMPP.  Which could be generalized to "instant messaging" and/or
> to "message-oriented middleware."

TLS: LDAP, FTP, NNTP (all have STARTTLS); Databases
(MySQL/PostgreSQL); RDP; ACAP; Syslog; DIP
DTLS: VPN clients, VOIP, Syslog, WebRTC


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