Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 23 June 2014 16:54 UTC

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Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:43:45 -0700
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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation
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On 23 June 2014 05:07, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> wrote:
> How would these applications be affected?

Dead air is unacceptable for at least one application I'm aware of for
long-lived connections (and therefore occasional rekeying), and that
is server-to-server XMPP.

> Do you know whether the F5
> implementation interleaves the re-handshake with application data?

No.  Most likely scenarios is that it's not going to do anything other
than impose some extra latency on HTTP requests.  Though I'll point
out that some people do care about that quite a bit.