[Cryptography] How to De-Bollocks Cryptography?

[Kent Borg]

On 8/12/24 05:25, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> There's also a tendency for protocol designers / standards committees to
> design mechanisms to try and address every imaginary issue everyone on the
> standards committee could ever dream up, including a great many that don't
> actually exist.

Ah, committees. Paper is cheap. Even cheaper now that mostly no one ever 
prints anything.


If only there were someone with some common sense and visibility and 
cryptography credentials to lead an effort to define a "TLSsimple" 
standard. (Mostly a job of just deleting stuff, right?)

And then get some Rust folk to implement a solid version of it, I hear 
there is funding for such things. It could be small enough to run in 
fairly restricted embedded devices, even.


-kb
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