Is it time to drop seccomp?

Richard Laager rlaager at wiktel.com
Wed Feb 13 07:11:20 UTC 2019


On 2/12/19 11:52 PM, Hal Murray via devel wrote:
> I don't expect troubles from the crypto.  It's the TCP/TLS that I'm suspicious 
> of.  TLS1.3 has lots of stuff in man pages that I don't understand about 
> reusing connections.  I'm pretty sure the idea is to avoid round trips when 
> (re)starting a connection.  It sounds like something that is likely to do 
> obscure things and be hard to test.

I doubt that connection reuse is necessary for NTS-KE. It may even be
undesirable, if it results in the same session keys (which I don't know
if it does). We may want to simply turn off that feature in both the
client and server.

-- 
Richard


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