Re: [TLS] A flags extension

This needs more space for each flag.  8 bits is a pretty small space.  If you are concerned with the size of the result, we have some variable-length integer encodings you could try.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2019, at 00:22, Salz, Rich wrote:
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> That was FAST.
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> Looks good.
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> *From: *Yoav Nir <ynir.ietf@gmail.com>
> *Date: *Monday, March 25, 2019 at 10:10 PM
> *To: *"tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
> *Subject: *[TLS] A flags extension
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> Hi. Today at the TLS meeting, there was a discussion at the mic about 
> 1-bit extensions that only serve to indicate support for an optional 
> feature. EKR commented that such extensions take 4 bytes each and that 
> maybe we need to replace them with a flags extension. 
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> So I threw together a quick -00 draft with an extension that does just that [1].
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> Comments are welcome.
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> Yoav
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> [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-nir-tls-tlsflags/ 
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