[Swan-dev] Gutmann talk

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Fri Mar 20 03:22:00 EET 2015


On Sun, 22 Feb 2015, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:

> 34 minutes in talks about IPsec.  Not the best part.
>
> The slides are
> <https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/crypto_wont_help.pdf>
> IPsec starts on page 51.  Pages from Snowden start on 56.  Perhaps worth

Peter has a thing against IPsec. It's not that he is wrong about there
being a problem of design by committee, but a lot of those options you
can just refrain from using. I find his arguments a little too
dismissive without any evidence of weakness (apart from referencing
the known IKEv1 Aggressive Mode attack the NSA deploys)

Paul



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