The key-manahement argument

Hal Murray hmurray at megapathdsl.net
Sun Jan 20 00:58:19 UTC 2019


> Imagine a server that uses the suggested cookie approach and simply never
> rolls over K. As long as the client daemon is running, its cookies will be
> valid and keep getting renewed. C2S and S2C will never get rolled over.
> Should the client track an expiration limit in memory, and when that limit is
> hit, re-run NTS-KE? 

Note that the client keeps using the same C2S and S2C even if the server does 
roll over K.

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> But there is a middle ground: opportunistic NTS.

The downside of opportunistic X is that it appears to be working but may stop 
working without any warning.  I think we should avoid it.



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