Re: [tcpm] tcp-auth-opt issue: reserved keyID value

Joe Touch <touch@ISI.EDU> Wed, 30 July 2008 23:20 UTC

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Adam Langley wrote:
| On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
|> Comments on additional pros and cons would be useful. Examples of how
|> this might impact implementation efficiency would be particularly useful
|> (esp. if not encumbered)
|
| I can only say that I found no problems handling a KeyID of 0. I'd be
| interested to know what problems other suspect their might be with it.

FWIW, this was not noted as a problem; the issue was that having a
reserved value could make an implementation much more efficient.

<individual hat on>
I would like to hear some corroboration of this utility, preferably with
a public demonstration of its value, since it otherwise adds an
arbitrary rule to the mechanism.
<individual hat off>
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