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Re: refactoring crypto handshakes (SSL in 3 easy steps)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Nov 16 11:00:57 2007
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:39:39 +0000
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: travis+ml-cryptography@subspacefield.org
Cc: Pasi.Eronen@nokia.com, cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20071114194536.GB32764@subspacefield.org>
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:45:37 -0600
travis+ml-cryptography@subspacefield.org wrote:
> I wonder if we here could develop a handshake that was
> cryptographically secure, resistant to CPU DoS now, and would be
> possible to adjust as we get faster at doing crypto operations to
> reduce latency even further. Basically an easy knob for balancing
> high latency and DoS resistance vs. crypto overhead and low latency.
> It should be adjustable on either end without altering the other.
>
Depending on your goals, JFK has some of those properties; see
http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~angelos/Papers/jfk-tissec.pdf
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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