Subject: [Taps] New Drafts on Transport Security Interface for TAPS

From: Tommy Pauly <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 08:14:29 -0700

Hello,

We’ve just posted two new documents that start addressing how to incorporate security protocols into the TAPS framework for use alongside transport protocols. At the meeting in Chicago, the question of how security protocols should be handled was brought up, and we suggested writing a draft to do a survey of Transport Security protocols, similar to the work done in RFC 8095 and the transport usage drafts. This document goes over several common transport security protocols and analyzes their features and interfaces, particularly with regards to how they interact with their associated transport protocols and applications.

A Survey of Transport Security Protocols
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pauly-taps-transport-security-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pauly-taps-transport-security-00>

The second document is an update of a draft that Mirja published earlier this year, which we would also like to bring into TAPS. This document takes a more normative approach, and suggests that transport security protocols should allow separation of the handshake and record protocols (similar to what QUIC does). This approach has an effect on the interaction between the security and transport layers, and adds some protocol-flexibility properties that complement the TAPS approach.

Separating Crypto Negotiation and Communication
https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kuehlewind-taps-crypto-sep-00 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kuehlewind-taps-crypto-sep-00>

Best,
Tommy