[Cryptography] open questions in secure protocol design?

Stephen Farrell stephen.farrell at cs.tcd.ie
Tue May 26 09:44:18 EDT 2015



On 26/05/15 14:35, Ben Laurie wrote:
> The way CT works is neither 1TCS nor agility - if you want to change
> ciphersuite, you start a new log. So, it seems there are other parts of the
> design space...
> 

Well yes and no. Yes, CT handles this differently from e.g. TLS and
that's fine. No, in that 1TCS is just a broken concept and hence is
not IMO part of any rational design space in the real world. 1TCS is
part of the rhetorical landscape but not a real design choice.

S.


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