Re: [TLS] Removing the "hint" from the Session Ticket Lifetime hint

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 23 February 2016 20:14 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Russ Housley <housley@vigilsec.com>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Removing the "hint" from the Session Ticket Lifetime hint
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Removing the "hint" from the Session Ticket Lifetime hint
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Absolute lifetimes seem more robust; e.g., if you find one lying around, you don't have enough context to know if it's still good or not.

We went from relative to absolute times in ACME for this reason.