Tony Arcieri <basc...@gmail.com> writes:

> This attack was published today[*]:
> 
> https://sweet32.info/
> 
> I bring it up because I think the threat model is similar to the threats
> that lead to RC4 "diediedie"
> 
> https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7465
> 
> Should there be a 3DES "diediedie"?

I think so.

> I believe 3DES is MTI for TLS 1.0/1.1(?) but I think it would make sense
> for it to be banned from TLS 1.3.

At least one purpose of such a RFC would be to replace the MTI ciphersuite
with a different ciphersuite.

> [*] Lest anyone claim the contrary, I am not surprised by this attack, and
> have pushed to have 3DES removed from TLS prior to the publication of this
> attack, and can probably find a TLS implementer who can back me up on that.

The problem has even been described previously on this very mailing list
<https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg04560.html> (the
original is off here:
<http://lists.links.org/pipermail/mogul-open/2009-November/000069.html>).


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