The TLS working group met on Wednesday, August 8, 2001 at 1300-1500 at the 51st IETF meeting in London. The meeting was chaired by Win Treese (treese@acm.org). Minutes by Win Treese.
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There was some discussion over which ciphersuites should be specified in the next version. Should AES be included? Should the mandatory ciphersuite be changed? No decisions were taken.
Simon Blake-Wilson made a brief presentation on the TLS Extensions draft (draft-ietf-tls-extensions-00.txt). Slides from the presentation are available in the IETF meeting minutes or at the TLS web site. Simon's presentation listed some open questions that need to be resolved, which is the next order of business for this draft.
Simon's presentation: [HTML] [PDF] [PowerPoint]
Shiho MORIAI of NTT (shiho@sucaba.isl.ntt.co.jp) spoke briefly about the Camellia ciphersuites. Her presentation is available in PowerPoint.
Doug Engert said a little about the TLS Delegation Protocol draft (draft-ietf-tls-delegation-01.txt) with more discussion to follow on the mailing list.
David Taylor, author of ``Using SRP for TLS Authentication'' (draft-ietf-tls-srp-01.txt), was unable to attend the meeting, so discussion will take place on the mailing list.
The AES ciphersuite draft without OAEP will be put forward for Proposed Standard.
There was much discussion of whether the IANA should handle ciphersuite assignments, which Treese will discuss with them. There was also quite a bit of discussion about whether patented algorithms should be given RFCs of any kind for ciphersuite identifiers.
Treese made two proposals for the handling of future ciphersuite submissions:
Because the authors were not present, discussion of the draft for Kerberos Cipher Suites in Transport Layer Security (TLS) (draft-ietf-tls-kerb-00.txt) was deferred to the mailing list.
Pending discussion on the mailing list, the drafts for Addition of MISTY1 to TLS (draft-ietf-tls-misty1-01.txt), Addition of the Camellia Encryption Algorithm to TLS (draft-ietf-tls-camellia-01.txt), and 56-bit Export Cipher Suites For TLS (draft-ietf-tls-56-bit-ciphersuites-01.txt) will be submitted as Informational RFCs.
The remaining drafts require further discussion on the mailing list.
Presentations on some of the ciphersuites:
Win Treese
Chair, TLS working group
treese@acm.org