Re: [TLS] Signed messages should be prefixed with a NUL-terminated context string.

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Mon, 29 December 2014 17:03 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:02:47 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Signed messages should be prefixed with a NUL-terminated context string.
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I've updated AGL's PR as described above.

https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/110

I'll be merging this later today. Please comment on the PR if I introduced
any errors.

-Ekr


On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>
wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the clarification. What do other people think about this
> > suggestion?
>
> I think it's a great idea. I'll send a PR after the holiday unless
> someone beats me to it.
>
>
> Cheers
>
> AGL
>