Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
This is wonderful.<p>I was super excited to dive in an find the RSA code so I could preen about Bleichenbacher's vulnerability, but she neatly sidestepped that by doing ECDH. Then I thought, well, maybe it's P-curve ECDH and I can preen about invalid curve attacks on static-ephemeral ECDH. But nope, X25519! My point here, apart from making fun of myself for being the kind of person who would write this stuff on a message board, is TLS 1.3 is pretty solid.<p>The "block thing" that's kind of weird is, I assume, the TLS Record Layer. TLS runs (ordinarily) over TCP, which provides a non-demarcated stream of bytes. TLS breaks that stream up into records, and runs its handshake messages over one type of record, (say) HTTPS over another, and "alerts" over a third. The Record Layer also interacts, I think, with TLS's misbegotten compression system?<p>In the same vein as this project (but with different goals) is Trevor Perrin's tlslite, which is implemented in pure Python: <a href="https://github.com/trevp/tlslite" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/trevp/tlslite</a>