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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 8/12/24 05:25, Peter Gutmann wrote:<br>
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<pre>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.</pre>
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<p>Ah, committees. Paper is cheap. Even cheaper now that mostly no
one ever prints anything.<br>
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<p>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?)<br>
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<p>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.<br>
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<p>-kb<br>
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