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Re: [TLS] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5246 (4382)

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Fri, 29 May 2015 17:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5246 (4382)
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Agreed. Redoing the whole thing in a new syntax could be mistake prone for both the spec and implementations. The simplest route would be to remove unhelpful examples and narrow the syntax on what is actually needed.


Dave


On Friday, May 29, 2015 01:23:26 pm Eric Rescorla wrote:
> I wouldn't be excited about making this change at this time.
> 
> I agree that the spec could be clearer about the syntax.
> Also, a cursory look suggests that we never use fixed-size arrays
> of fixed-size objects, so maybe we can just remove this example.
> 
> -Ekr
> 
> 
> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 29 May 2015 at 10:05, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
> > > ASN.1 would be interesting, but I don't believe PER is the right thing
> > as we'd end up defining a completely new on-the-wire protocol for TLS 1.3.
> > Instead you'd have to define something like TER, the TLS Encoding Rules.
> >
> > I'm not certain about that.
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