A Bluffer’s Guide to TLS 1.3

So after nearly four years and 28 drafts, the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) has finally pushed TLS (Transport Layer Security) 1.3 over the line [here]. Overall it fixes many of the recently discovered problems and improves performance (and also dumps legacy methods). A new feature — Zero-RTT (zero round trip time resumption) — has been introduced to speed up things, but could actually be opening up a whole lot of new…