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Re: [TLS] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5246 (4382)

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Fri, 29 May 2015 16:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5246 (4382)
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On 29 May 2015 at 09:18, Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> wrote:
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> I would not be against throwing around some warnings that the length is always the sizeof and not the array length. It's not wrong, though.

ASN.1 doesn't suffer from this problem.  I wonder if it's worth
translating the spec to ASN.1 and (probably) PER?

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