On 15/08/13 18:15, Chris Richardson wrote:
I believe this plan would have poor side effects. For example, if Apple
ships clients with a broken ECDSA implementation [0], a server cannot
detect detect if a connecting client is an Apple product and avoid the use
of ECDSA in that subset of connections. Instead, ECDSA suddenly becomes
unsafe for anyone to use anywhere.
Chris,
Firefox already offers ECDHE-ECDSA ciphersuites, so I don't think
Brian's plan would introduce any _new_ side effects relating to that OSX
(10.8..10.8.3) bug.
Are you suggesting that Firefox should drop support for all ECDHE-ECDSA
ciphersuites?
Or are you suggesting that NSS should implement the equivalent of that
proposed OpenSSL patch, so that NSS-based TLS servers can avoid
attempting to negotiate ECDHE-ECDSA with broken OSX clients?
Or what?
Should browsers drop support now for all TLS features that might
possibly suffer broken implementations in the future?
(For example, AGL would like to get rid of AES-GCM because it's hard to
implement securely. See
https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/01/13/rwc03.html)
[0]:
https://github.com/agl/openssl/commit/0d26cc5b32c23682244685975c1e9392244c0a4d
On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 10:30 PM, Brian Smith <br...@briansmith.org> wrote:
Please see https://briansmith.org/browser-ciphersuites-01.html
First, this is a proposal to change the set of sequence of ciphersuites
that Firefox offers. Secondly, this is an invitation for other browser
makers to adopt the same sequence of ciphersuites to maximize
interoperability, to minimize fingerprinting, and ultimately to make
server-side software developers and system administrators' jobs easier.
Suggestions for improvements are encouraged.
Cheers,
Brian
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