[TLS] Comments on draft-ietf-tls-applayerprotoneg-03

John Mattsson <john.mattsson@ericsson.com> Mon, 04 November 2013 18:17 UTC

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Subject: [TLS] Comments on draft-ietf-tls-applayerprotoneg-03
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Hi, 

Some minor comments on draft-ietf-tls-applayerprotoneg-03

/John

- [Section 3.1]
"Implementations MUST ensure that an empty string is not included and that no byte strings are truncated."

How does an implementation differentiate between the byte string "spdy/10" truncated to "spdy/1" and the non-truncated string "spdy/1"?  ;)

I assume what is meant is that the implementation MUST ensure that the length of protocol_name_list is correct. But isn't that already handled by RFC5246 for both client and server (which sends a decode_error)? I suggest to reformulate or remove.

- [Section 3.2]
Seems to be an extra line break that should be removed: 

enum {
    no_application_protocol(120), (255)
} AlertDescription;


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