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Re: [TLS] RFC 6066 - Max fragment length negotiation

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sat, 18 March 2017 07:40 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net>, Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC 6066 - Max fragment length negotiation
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Hannes Tschofenig <hannes.tschofenig@gmx.net> writes:

>Here are my 5 cents: we implement this extension in our mbed TLS stack and we
>consider it quite important for IoT devices that have limited amount of RAM.
>The DTLS/TLS profiles for IoT RFC also recommends the use of this extension
>and we discussed this in the DICE WG and there was no objection against the
>recommendation.

Do you have a server that implements this online anywhere for interop
purposes?  I've had it implemented but commented out pretty much forever, it'd
be useful to have something to test against.

Peter.

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