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Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 10 April 2014 01:42 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 21:42:54 -0400
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>> TLS has an ad-hoc IDL and encoding, and it IIUC doesn't adhere to its own conventions tightly enough that we could now standardize a compatible IDL+encoding and develop tooling for it.

I'm not quite sure what you mean.  Are you saying that you think the IDL doesn't match what is actually put out on the wire?  Or the IDL->wire mapping is broken/wrong in places, or what?

I haven't looked at generating "stubs" from the IDL, so I guess I really can't comment.
	/r$

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