Subject: [TLS] Closing out the final issue in 4492bis

From: Sean Turner <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2017 11:05:10 -0500

All,

The changes made to draft-ietf-tls-rfc4492bis-11 addressed the WGLC comments, but we were waiting to hear from the CFRG wrt whether to use contexts.  It appears that the CFRG thread discussing the use of context for TLS1.3 has wound down [0] and it appears that the consensus is: “no to contexts in this instance”; while the thread did continue for bit nobody was demanding context MUST be used in TLS1.3.  Based on this, we’re going to close this final issue out.

Yoav - please submit a -12 to address this.  I believe the text you suggest in mid-November for s2 would suffice:

 The context parameter for Ed448 MUST be set to the empty string.

Please also note that the 3rd to last paragraph in the security considerations needs to be expanded or removed.

Cheers,

J&S

[0] https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/LYK6Is9s6fRmniRhVoieYdzdXGw <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/cfrg/LYK6Is9s6fRmniRhVoieYdzdXGw>