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SecDir review: mitigation against contextual attack #430

Closed mcr closed 1 year ago

mcr commented 1 year ago

The review is at: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/last-call/0JpYvkgL-79nvmsrUpWKtMqtkhE The review is positive, but asks for:

Even                       
if confidentiality is provided, the section goes on to state that information                        
can still be inferred by contextual or timing of the attestor exchange.  The                         
draft doesn’t describe ways to mitigate against this type of attack but should                       
give some guidance. 
mcr commented 1 year ago

I'm not sure how, in an abstract architecture, we can mitigate against timing attacks. A specific protocol could propose mechanisms to defeat traffic analysis, but I don't think that the architecture can do this. Other typos handled.