Re: [TLS] renegotiation draft needs clarification !!

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Thu, 12 November 2009 04:22 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] renegotiation draft needs clarification !!
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David-Sarah Hopwood wrote:
> Michael D'Errico wrote:
>>>>> This leads to two different encodings, which are:
>>>>>
>>>>>  FF 01 00 00
>>>>>
>>>>>  FF 01 00 01 00
> 
> Good catch.

I can't take credit for finding that -- it was Nelson.

Mike

>> I will selfishly vote for the second choice since that is
>> how I implemented it, though it would be easy to change.
> 
> The second choice is slightly more regular, in that the empty and
> non-empty versions of the extension data have the same type.