Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 28 May 2014 20:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation
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On 28 May 2014 13:15, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
>> The whole point is to avoid the DH.
>
> I'm not sure that should be a major design point.  For the one use-case we know, do we know if those long lived xmpp connections are to small clients (such as android phones) or server to server?

People who like resumption keep saying that this is the primary
advantage.  Maybe they like the latency advantage, but most of that
would be obviated by faster handshakes, or false start.