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Introducing Zero Round Trip Time Resumption (0-RTT) (cloudflare.com)
29 points by jgrahamc on March 15, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



This is gonna be interesting.

TLS 1.3 removes a whole lot of problematic constructions and greatly improves security. However, 0-RTT is the only piece that looks like a candidate to introduce new security problems, because it can allow replay attacks.

I'm pretty much waiting for some interesting attacks based on that showing up. But from the severity I expect things more like POODLE or BEAST (== relatively complicated to exploit) and less like Heartbleed.

(To be clear: I don't blame CF for enabling it, they have the problem on the radar and seem to take some precautions, as you can read in the blogpost.)


Nick and Filippo also went into some more detail at their (excellent) 33c3 talk in December: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8348-deploying_tls_1_3_the_great...




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