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    Comment #16757394

    Hey, this is largely off-topic but worth a punt: do you have any info on when AWS IoT (maybe other AWS services as well?) will move off the dependency on the Verisign RSA/SHA-1 CA?…

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    Comment #16756993

    Ah cheers for the link. Yeah a proof at the level of abstraction up from a single pattern would be lovely. I don't really have 'concerns' as such: it's just if your risk profile is…

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    Comment #16756899

    I would definitely agree, yeah. Notwithstanding the legacy protocol core, Noise has great potential to allow people to step away from the asn1, X509 etc TLS cruft. Comparing betwee…

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    Comment #16752535

    I don't think you can deem mbedTLS too risky on one hand, and then on the other recommend Noise, with it's slew of unfinished and largely unverified libraries. Outside of the WireG…

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    Comment #16750041

    When you're that small it really requires more context. What are you trying to do? I've deployed TLS in 50 KiB flash and 6 Kb RAM. But I could rely on hardware support for some pub…

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    Comment #16749970

    Ha yeah, composition was a bad choice of word. Maybe an quick example off the top of my head would be: you know you need to authenticate and perhaps additionally 'encrypt' somethin…

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    Comment #16749484

    I think the most useful parts of the document are the 'really try hard to use TLS for any comms problem' or 'try to use Amazon's key management for encryption' answers, and pointer…

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    Comment #16749221

    Advice for that kind of problem typically requires a lot more context, e.g.: * You need to do symmetric crypto between two MCUs, where only one has an RNG; * You need to do symmetr…

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    Comment #16747372

    I agree that OpenSSL is likely the most robust library out there, and if you're talking about provisioning your web server / doing some https from a high-level language then it's d…