Re: [TLS] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00.txt

[Michael D'Errico <[e-mail]>]

I think the current name doesn't describe the feature very well.  SMTP and
HTTP call it "pipelining" so perhaps you could use that name instead.  My
software should tolerate TLS pipelining if a peer were to use it, but I
don't feel comfortable adding it as a feature.

Mike



Bodo Moeller wrote:
> A downside of deploying TLS is the latency penalty due to the TLS 
> handshake: when starting a new session, HTTPS needs two additional 
> round-trip times compared with unencrypted HTTP.  This document shows 
> that it's easy to do better than that, just by changing the client's 
> protocol implementation -- no change to server code is required to speed 
> up full handshakes.
> 
> (Similarly, a server-only change can speed up abbreviated handshakes for 
> application protocols in which, unlike HTTP, the server sends data first.)
> 
> An example implementation for OpenSSL is available as 
> handshake_cutthrough.patch at 
> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nagendra/openssl-patches/trunk/files.
> 
> Bodo
> 
> 
> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>>
>> 	Title           : Transport Layer Security (TLS) False Start
>> 	Author(s)       : A. Langley, et al.
>> 	Filename        : draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00.txt
>> 	Pages           : 11
>> 	Date            : 2010-06-02
>>
>> This document specifies an optional behavior of TLS implementations,
>> dubbed False Start.  It affects only protocol timing, not on-the-wire
>> protocol data, and can be implemented unilaterally.  The TLS False
>> Start feature leads to a latency reduction of one round trip for
>> certain handshakes.
>>
>> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
>> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00.txt
>>
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>>
>> Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader
>> implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version of the
>> Internet-Draft.
>>
>> <ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bmoeller-tls-falsestart-00.txt>