Re: Zero padding

Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net> Wed, 24 September 2014 10:29 UTC

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Seems reasonable to me. Any further comment - especially (but not exclusively) from the TLS community?

Regards,


On 23 Sep 2014, at 5:43 pm, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Regarding https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/issues/602
> 
> I draw your attention to
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-padding-03#section-3, which
> makes the same requirements on padding that the current draft does:
> that is, must be zero, no requirements to enforce this at the receiver
> (though servers MAY validate this, which is as effective as a MUST in
> ensuring compliance).  I hold that Adam and the numerous reviewers of
> this draft from the TLS community collectively know more about this
> than I could ever hope to, and suggest that we defer to their
> collective judgment.
> 
> I would like to close issue #602 with the single change included in
> the following PR:
> https://github.com/http2/http2-spec/pull/617
> 

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