Given the fate of TLS3 I really don't see that as much of an endorsement ?
The NSA leadership would be utterly incompetent if they have not planted people in the FOSS world.
(I gave a talk about that, google "Operation Orchestra")
The NSA leadership would be utterly incompetent if they have not planted people in the FOSS world.
(I gave a talk about that, google "Operation Orchestra")
I'm familiar with your writing and believe you could produce any number of valid, incisive critiques of the IETF TLS standards process (I'm no fan of it myself).
That being the case, you might want to be wary that you're unintentionally lending your name to a whispering campaign. The question of whether TLS is inept is orthogonal to the question of EKR's motives. Nobody involved in the IETF TLS effort during OpaquePRF did an especially great job of honing TLS into a coherent and secure transport protocol, but many of them worked very hard and in good faith to try.
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And I have no reasons whatsoever to think ekr could be an NSA mole...