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Is Noise the right answer to any of these crypto "questions"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593916 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9593916

• tptacek 10y ago
  Not yet. It will be the best answer to the last of those questions, and it is a great case study for how the preceding questions are best answered. (Those questions, by the way, originally come from Colin Percival; I didn't choose them, and wouldn't say they're the best questions). What we're waiting for is good Noise-primitive implementations in enough languages. The Noise protocols themselves are probably the best secure channel protocols we're going to get for awhile.
• lvh 10y ago
  Generally speaking: they're not the same kind of thing, and no. For two reasons: most of these recommendations are at a lower level; they talk about primitives, not about protocols. Secondly, most applications still want TLS, probably with limited ciphersuite support, although you could do a lot worse than Noise. TLS is much better understood, and better supported. Noise is great if you care about implementing protocols with new properties, like indistinguishability, or over novel transports, or denaibility, or...