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Re: [TLS] Comments on EndOfEarlyData

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Tue, 16 May 2017 19:26 UTC

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 14:21:31 -0500
From: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
To: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Cc: Richard Barnes <rlb@ipv.sx>, "<tls@ietf.org>" <tls@ietf.org>, Britta Hale <britta.hale@item.ntnu.no>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Comments on EndOfEarlyData
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On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:04:57PM -0700, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:30 AM, Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 01:43:32PM -0400, Richard Barnes wrote:
> > > As has been pointed out elsewhere, other key changes are signaled with a
> > > handshake message (KeyUpdate), so using a handshake message seems more
> > > natural from a protocol point of view.
> >
> > And as long as the record type goes in the clear, sending these sorts of
> > messages all with the same record type (handshake) seems best from a
> > traffic analysis p.o.v.
> 
> Actually at this point in the handshake the record type is encrypted.

Oh good.

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