Re: [TLS] Session resumption ticket reuse considered harmful

[Nico Williams <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 04:21:56PM -0800, Watson Ladd wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 3:08 PM Nico Williams <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > My skepticism is entirely a function of this being a late breaking
> > > [...]
> >
> > What is late breaking to you?
> >
> > The change was proposed during WGLC.  If before or during WGLC is too
> > late, when is it not too late?  At WG work item adoption call?
> 
> It depends on the relative size of the change and the importance of
> the issue. An important central issue that went completely unnoticed:

Thanks.  I agree about the relative size of the change, how substantial
it might be, and how necessary it might be.

> > > [...]
> >
> > Right, but this is where the "Postfix architecture" issue comes in.  I'm
> > having a conversation with him about this.  Viktor might be confused
> > about the CoW properties of LMDB, but in any case, the wire bandwidth
> > waste and server compute waste issues have nothing to do with Postfix's
> > architecture/design/implementation.
> 
> Tickets are small and issuance is cheap. Where are the *hard numbers*
> to back up the assertions being made that ticket reuse is an important
> savings?

How small they are appears to be in question.  See Viktor's post.

Nico
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