Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC4492 (4633)

Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> Fri, 04 March 2016 06:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC4492 (4633)
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"Glen Knowles" <gknowles@ieee.org>:

> To be pedantic wouldn't it be:
> NamedCurve elliptic_curve_list<2..2^16-2>

Arguably so, but that's not how the TLS RFCs use the presentation language
in practice (see ClientHello.cipher_suites for just one example), and we'd
want to be consistent with that, not extra nitpicky.

Bodo