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Re: [TLS] Multi-Threaded Applications over TLS

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com> Mon, 20 April 2009 21:08 UTC

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From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@sun.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Multi-Threaded Applications over TLS
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:23:16PM +0200, Badra wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 9:41 PM, Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>wrote:
> > Has anyone from the Web community expressed interest in this feature?
> 
> Eric, honestly I don't see why all these questions. The document is posted
> since only 7 hours, and I didn't contact offline any persons "off-line" for
> their comments.

I do.  Eric is quite right to point out that retrofitting existing apps
to use this facility may be difficult to the point that it won't happen.
If it won't happen then why do it?  Also, Eric's interest in whether
there is IETF interest in this for use in Internet protocols is
important to determining how much interest TLS WG (and other)
participants may have.

I also agree that this should be a separate layer, but negotiation of it
in TLS handshakes is useful as a way to start that layer sooner rather
than having to have an application-layer round-trip to negotiate its
use.

Nico
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