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Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Sun, 16 October 2016 20:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels
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This seems like a good change. I'll merge this on Monday (pre draft-17)
unless I hear objections

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 2:53 AM, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I'm sympathetic to this, but just to be clear...
>
> You are suggesting that end_of_early_data and close_notify will be
> marked "fatal".
>
> WFM.
>
> On 15 October 2016 at 08:07, Kyle Nekritz <knekritz@fb.com> wrote:
> > After PR #625 all alerts are required to be sent with fatal AlertLevel
> > except for close_notify, end_of_early_data, and user_canceled. Since
> those
> > three alerts all have separate specified behavior, the AlertLevel field
> is
> > not serving much purpose, other than providing potential for misuse. We
> > (Facebook) currently receive a number of alerts at incorrect levels from
> > clients (internal_error warning alerts, etc.). I propose deprecating this
> > field to simplify implementations and require that any misuse be ignored.
> >
> >
> >
> > PR: https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/693
> >
> >
> >
> > Kyle
> >
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