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

[Bodo Moeller <[e-mail]>]

On Jun 3, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Michael D'Errico wrote:

> 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.

Michael,

thanks for the comment.

Yes, "TLS False Start" is an application of the pipelining principle.   
However, I think the name "pipelining" isn't sufficiently specific,  
and thus misleading: even without "False Start", you can have  
pipelining with TLS (for application data).

Furthermore, there are important non-obvious security considerations,  
and if we just called this "pipelining", implementors might mistakenly  
believe they know what's going on because they know pipelining from  
other protocols.  We do want them to read the security considerations  
first.  I hope that the name "False Start" becomes clear once you've  
got the idea behind it: a party starts before it has received a "go"  
signal.

Bodo