NTS client configuration support has landed

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sat Feb 2 11:59:12 UTC 2019


> I think this discussion really needs to take into account that the NTS-KE
> communication happens inside a TLS session, which is a layered communication
> channel w/ internal state.  Possible solutions can be implemented at several
> of these layers.  Taken at face value the current RFC would imply a full TLS
> session teardown and reconnect.  I think that you could do the same
> "reconnect" while keeping the TLS session open (thus avoiding all the
> certificate checks and cipher negotiation) and just re-key.  Last but not
> least I _think_ it is possible to have several virtual connections inside the
> same TLS session (that would only work for NTS if they can at least have
> different IV), so that would be another route to ask for multiple servers
> within one TLS handshake. 

Good sugestions, thanks, but it's all an implementation of get a batch of 
answers from one NTS-KE server.  I think it would be simpler to fix the NTS-KE 
protocol and probably a good idea to stay away from non-mainline uses of TLS.

I think we should put pool stuff on the back burner.


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