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Re: [TLS] assert TLSext in renego-ServerHello instead of disable renego

Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com> Sun, 15 November 2009 23:45 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@networkresonance.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] assert TLSext in renego-ServerHello instead of disable renego
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At Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:36:07 -0800,
Bodo Moeller wrote:
> 
> On Nov 12, 2009, at 10:00 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> 
> >
> > The issue isn't whether the client sends it. Of course the client
> > sends it. It's whether the client aborts the connection of the server
> > doesn't return it.
> 
> Why make a client send it on the initial handshake if that client  
> wouldn't have plans to abort the connection if the server doesn't  
> acknowledge it?  Interoperability seems easier if you don't send it.

Agreed. I've rethought this point since I wrote it.

-Ekr

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