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Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
4:57 PM
Nowadays instead of SSL we usually use TLS (with clients and servers which can fall back to SSL (or previous versions of TLS) if necessary).
So, should the ssl tag better be named tls, with a synonym?
 
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
I often say "SSL/TLS"
as an acronym, "SSL" is much more widely known than "TLS"
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
So, a [tag:ssl/tls] (or the other way around)?
(seems like / is not allowed in tag names.)
 
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
the '/' appears to be troublesome for the tag name
I would say: ssl is the "normal tag", and tls is an alias
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
5:13 PM
> SSL (or Secure Sockets Layer) and its successor TLS (Transport Layer Security) are protocols which provide communication security (privacy and integrity) for a bidirectional data channel.
(Maybe without the "or".)
> They are usually used on top of a transport layer protocol like TCP, either below or integrated in application layer protocols.
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
5:43 PM
(submitted a bit longer version of this.)
 
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
I am again out of votes
It will have to wait tomorrow, or another mod
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
Yes, is not urgent. Thanks.
Any idea on how to abbreviate [differential-cryptanalysis]? It is 26 characters long, one too much. We could ommit the -, but this does not look nice.
 
Thomas Pornin
Thomas Pornin
I have encountered "differential analysis" as a synonym
in crypto.SE on can assume that "crypt" is involved pretty much everywhere
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
6:03 PM
Sounds good.
 
Paŭlo Ebermann
Paŭlo Ebermann
6:36 PM
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A: The big tag naming discussion

Paŭlo Ebermanndifferential-cryptanalysis would be the optimal tag for Differential Cryptanalysis. But this tag name is (one character) too long. Currently differential is in use, but that is a bit poor. (Also, not really specific.) In the chat Thomas Pornin just proposed the naming differential-analysis. ...

 

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