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Re: [TLS] Record header size?

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 18 November 2015 01:32 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, "Short, Todd" <tshort@akamai.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Record header size?
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Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> writes:

>The concern here is backward compatibility with inspection middleboxes which
>expect the length field to be in a particular place.

Given that the rest of TLS 1.3 is going to break compatibility with pretty
much everything everywhere, I can't see this as a big concern, may as well fix
it at the same time as everything else is being changed.

Peter.

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