Re: [TLS] renegotiation draft needs clarification !!

David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah@jacaranda.org> Thu, 12 November 2009 04:09 UTC

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

Good catch.

> 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.

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