[MLS] Welcome Message Extensibility
Konrad Kohbrok <konrad.kohbrok@datashrine.de> Sun, 06 September 2020 07:04 UTC
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Subject: [MLS] Welcome Message Extensibility
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Hi everyone, While Version and CipherSuite are on the "top-level" of the Welcome message, the extensions are buried in the GroupInfo. That makes sense, because their content might be confidential. However, that means that at least the encryption method of the Welcome message is not extensible. I have no particularly strong opinion on this, but if anyone has a use case, where an extension has to "kick-in" before Welcome message decryption, we might want an additional extensions field on the top level of the Welcome message. (We would have to make sure it's authenticated, of course.) Cheers, Konrad
- [MLS] Welcome Message Extensibility Konrad Kohbrok