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Re: [TLS] Accepting that other SNI name types will never work.

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 03 March 2016 22:44 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
To: Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Accepting that other SNI name types will never work.
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On 4 March 2016 at 05:49, Adam Langley <agl@imperialviolet.org> wrote:
> (I think the lesson here is that protocols should have a single joint,
> and that it should be kept well oiled. For TLS, that means that
> extensions should have minimal extensionality in themselves and that
> we should generally rely on the main extensions mechanism for these
> sorts of things.)

Big +1

Note that the NSS bug also entailed non-zero SNI name types
overwriting the actual SNI.

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