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Re: [TLS] [sasl] [CHANNEL-BINDING] Updates to draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings (PLEASE REVIEW)

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@Sun.COM> Thu, 18 March 2010 18:17 UTC

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From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] [sasl] [CHANNEL-BINDING] Updates to draft-altman-tls-channel-bindings (PLEASE REVIEW)
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 06:13:43PM +0000, Larry Zhu wrote:
> It seems that we can leave tls-unique as is, and add a new registry,
> let's say, called "tls-dynamic" or similar, to use the updated
> definition. Unless some one finds a case where interop can be an
> issue, it is probably a better way to go.

We can do that, but it doesn't solve any problems because we don't have
a way to negotiate which channel binding type to use.  It would be best
to reach agreement on tls-unique and make sure that any implementors
that have to make changes do so while it's still early.

Nico
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