David Wong

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Hey! I'm David, cofounder of zkSecurity, research advisor at Archetype, and author of the Real-World Cryptography book. I was previously a cryptography architect of Mina at O(1) Labs, the security lead for Libra/Diem at Facebook, and a security engineer at the Cryptography Services of NCC Group. Welcome to my blog about cryptography, security, and other related topics.

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TLS 1.3 is out!

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TLS 1.3 has been released as RFC 8446. It took 28 drafts and more than 4 years since draft 0 to come out. Cloudflare has a long blog post about it. Some questions about the deployment of 1.3:

  • Will we see a fast deployment of the protocol? It seems like browsers are ready, but web servers will have to follow.
  • Who will use 0-RTT? I’m expecting the big players to use it (largely because they’ve been requesting it) but what about the small ones?
  • Are we going to see vulnerabilities in the protocol? It seems highly unlikely, TLS 1.2 itself (with AES-GCM) has remained solid for more than 10 years.
  • Are we going to see vulnerabilities in the implementations? We will see about that. If anything happens, I’m expecting it to happen around 0-RTT, PSKs and key exports. But let’s hope that libraries have learned their lessons.
  • Is BearSSL going to implement TLS 1.3? It sounds like it.
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