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Re: [TLS] Unifying tickets and sessions

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Tue, 21 October 2014 06:00 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Unifying tickets and sessions
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On 20 October 2014 16:34, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote:
> +  The client MUST always include an empty Session ID in the ClientHello.
> +  The server MUST always include an empty Session ID in the ServerHello.
> +  The client determines if the server is resuming a session by
>    the subsequent handshake messages.

I'm going to suggest going one further.  Remove the session ID from
the ServerHello entirely.

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