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Re: [TLS] Quest for Unified Solution to TLS Renegotiation

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Thu, 26 November 2009 18:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Quest for Unified Solution to TLS Renegotiation
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David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> 
> The TLS spec doesn't seem to be very clear on whether handshake messages
> with an unrecognized HandshakeType must cause an error (section 7.4).
> Does anyone know what implementations actually do?

My code will send a fatal unexpected_message alert.  This seems
like something that should be a MUST in the spec.

Mike

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