On 3/23/2015 12:22 PM, ianG wrote:
> On 17/03/2015 17:48 pm, Joe Touch wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 3/16/2015 3:03 PM, ianG wrote:
>>> On 12/03/2015 09:29 am, Tero Kivinen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyways protection against prevasive monitoring is the important thing
>>>> here, the limited protection against active attacks is secondary
>>>> objective.
>>>
>>> That is my view.  My sense is that TCPinc goes forward in v0 with only
>>> passive capabilities, and is easily attacked.
>>>
>>> In v1, we might do better.  But I don't get the feeling that we/the
>>> group knows enough to lay down the solution without really trying it.
>>
>> I appreciate that viewpoint, but it's also useful to recognize that
>> there might not be an incremental path towards doing better in v1.
> 
> Hmm... can you please say more about why there wouldn't be a path to
> upgrade to v1?

Decisions you make now may limit the ability to avoid active attacks,
esp. during the SYN exchange.

>> Whatever foundation you pick now will have consequences.
> 
> That, granted.  1994, first month on the road, they separated the
> webpages into HTTPS and HTTP coz crypto was too slow.  We're still
> paying...

Well, that split was arguably because of the lack of a way to negotiate
optional security; even though that was addressed with STARTTLS just 5
years later, here we are another 20 after that and just a few weeks ago,
SAAG still couldn't reach consensus on whether one port or two was
preferred from a security viewpoint.

Joe

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