Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-chudov-cryptopro-tlsprfneg-00.txt

From: Brian Minard <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 18:16:35 -0400

Hi,

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 07:37:31AM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:

> G. Chudov has just posted draft-chudov-cryptopro-tlsprfneg-00.txt,
> which describes a scheme for PRF negotiation for TLS. The major
> motivation for this is to enable GOST use in TLS, because for
> regulatory reasons GOST cannot be used with non-GOST hash functions.
> This would be a major technical change to TLS.
>
> Is this work that the TLS WG wants to take on?

Introducing alternative PRFs capable of using the new hash functions
(SHA-224 and up) is worthwhile. My thinking is in line with Pasi's on
the issue of PRF negotiation.

Thanks,
Brian

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