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Re: [TLS] Passive TLS Clients - Reverse Connections

Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com> Sun, 15 December 2013 00:48 UTC

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From: Watson Ladd <watsonbladd@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Passive TLS Clients - Reverse Connections
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On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Mohamad Badra <mbadra@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I've submitted the following document to enable a TLS connection from a
> server to a client after the initial handshake is complete.
Do you have a use case for this? Because once the handshake finishes
you have a perfectly good connection.
If an application protocol requires this, it can do it at the application level.
Sincerely,
Watson Ladd

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