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Re: [TLS] PR#28: Converting cTLS to QUIC-style varints

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Tue, 06 October 2020 04:59 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] PR#28: Converting cTLS to QUIC-style varints
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1994 called. It wanted to talk about distinguished encoding rules.

On 10/5/2020 8:08 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> I don't have a strong opinion on whether to require a minimal
> encoding, but if we're not going to use QUIC's encoding as-is, then I
> would rather stick with the existing scheme, which has twice as large
> a range for the 1 byte encoding and is thus more compact for a range
> of common cases.
>
> -Ekr
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 7:31 PM Marten Seemann <martenseemann@gmail.com
> <mailto:martenseemann@gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     In that case, why use QUIC's encoding at all? It would just put
>     the burden on the receiver to check that the minimal encoding was
>     used.
>     Would it instead make more sense to modify QUIC's encoding, such
>     that the 2-byte encoding doesn't encode the numbers from 0 to
>     16383, but the numbers from 64 to (16383 + 64), and equivalently
>     for 4 and 8-byte encodings?
>
>     On Tue, Oct 6, 2020 at 9:22 AM Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com
>     <mailto:rsalz@akamai.com>> wrote:
>
>         Can you just say “QUIC rules but use the minimum possible length”?
>
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