Re: [MLS] Question regarding ClientInitKey message format

Benjamin Beurdouche <benjamin.beurdouche@inria.fr> Wed, 02 October 2019 16:11 UTC

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Hi Pascal,

If you look at the latest version of the draft (master) which is available on Github [0]
we moved away from having multiple cipher suites advertized in the ClientInitKey
to have only one ciphersuite [1], hence solving that issue at the same time… :)

Let me/us know if you have any questions…

Best,
Benjamin

[0] https://github.com/mlswg/mls-protocol/blob/master/draft-ietf-mls-protocol.md
[1] https://github.com/mlswg/mls-protocol/pull/204/files


> On Oct 1, 2019, at 4:30 PM, Pascal Junod <cryptopathe@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello, 
> 
> I am new to that list, so please accept my apologies in advance for any wrong doings with respect to the list etiquette ! 
> 
> I am currently reading draft-07 (Aug. 13, 2019) and something is not clear to me with respect to the ClientInitKey format defined in section 7. The array of ciphersuites cipher_suites is expected to have a length of 0 to 255 ciphersuites, while the array of public keys init_keys is expected to have between one and 65535 public keys. At the same time, an above paragraph says that the init_array MUST have the same length as the cipher_suites array. Shouldn't both of them having a length <1,255> ? Or what did I misunderstand?
> 
> Best, 
> 
> Pascal
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