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Re: [TLS] '15 TLS Fall Interim Minutes

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 24 September 2015 17:26 UTC

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On 23 September 2015 at 08:50, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
>> One thing to note: The time is 4 octets, and 32 bit time since unix
>> epoch runs out a good bit faster than what I would like.
>
>
> I will fix this.


If your fix is to make it bigger, that's just wasteful.

If your fix is to make it modulo 2^32, that's probably OK.  Any time
period that is significantly longer than we thing a configuration is
good for will do.

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