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Re: [TLS] Unifying tickets and sessions

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 21 October 2014 07:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Unifying tickets and sessions
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On 21 October 2014 00:10, Richard Fussenegger, BSc
<richard@fussenegger.info> wrote:
> The idea of using a key length of at least the 'highest supported
> ciphers'[*] sounds very good to me

There is no technical reason that you would want a minimum length on
the ticket.  If you are using stateful resumption, a ticket of "1" or
"2" is perfectly sufficient.

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