Re: [TLS] Redefine Finished message for TLS 1.3 ?

[Nelson Bolyard <[e-mail]>]

Bodo Moeller wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 12:11 PM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
>> On 2009-11-15 11:13 PDT, Bodo Moeller wrote:
>>> On Nov 14, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Nelson B Bolyard wrote:
> 
>>>> Others in the meeting responded that changing the definition of the
>>>> computation of the Finished messages was a change to the base protocol
>>>> specification (which adding an extension is not), and thus the change
>>>> I proposed would make TLS become (say) TLS 1.3.
>>>
>>> In that proposal, would there have been any explicit indicator sent by
>>> the client and server to indicate that they intend to use the the
>>> modified Finished message?
>>
>> Yes, the protocol version number.
> 
> Well, obviously -- I was asking about the proposal *before* others had
> suggested that this would require a new protocol version.
> 
> I gather that there was no other indicator, and *thus* they thought the
> protocol version would have to change.

I had something else in mind, but I never presented it, because I concurred
with the assessment that it was a base protocol change and really deserved
a new protocol version number.