Re: [dhcwg] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-10: (with COMMENT)

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 23 January 2018 04:00 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 19:59:32 -0800
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Subject: Re: [dhcwg] Eric Rescorla's No Objection on draft-ietf-dhc-rfc3315bis-10: (with COMMENT)
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On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 7:54 PM, Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2018, at 10:49 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
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> Well, maybe. It allows you to encode something fixed-length, even if you
> derive it from something variable length.
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> Why does that matter?
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Fixed-length encodings are easier to work with -- including to generate --
than non-fixed length.

In any case, this is a comment, so you guys should feel free to ignore it.

-Ekr


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  Sad to say, we are not encrypting any of this, so padding isn't needed.
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