Subject: [saag] TLS report for IETF 112

From: "Christopher Wood" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2021 07:15:10 -0800

The TLS WG met on Tuesday. We worked through some open issues on the Exported Authenticators, TLS Flags, and DTLS 1.3 documents. We expect to update all of these soon, moving DTLS 1.3 forward in AUTH48, and Exported Authenticators and TLS Flags to the IESG. A status update on ECH and its implementation status was also presented.

Several new work items were presented to the group, including an update to RFC8447, deployment-related drafts for ECH, and extensions built on top of cTLS. We expect to issue an adoption call for RFC8447bis soon. Next steps for the other drafts are still under discussion.

To conclude, Paul Grubbs (University of Michigan) presented research on zero-knowledge proof applications for addressing TLS visibility problems in practice. New research questions and directions were raised during the meeting, which may lead to future work in the TLS WG.

Best,
Chris, for the TLS chairs