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Re: [TLS] Adding an additional step to exporters

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 27 February 2017 00:21 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 11:21:30 +1100
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Adding an additional step to exporters
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On 24 February 2017 at 21:02, Ilari Liusvaara <ilariliusvaara@welho.com> wrote:
> This technique seems to assume there is some fixed known set of exporter
> labels that are used. Since if you don't know the full set, you need to
> keep the master exporter secret around anyway.

This is correct.  I assume here that many applications know the set of
exporters that they support, since each generally requires code.  This
would not be a TLS-stack responsibility, but an application-layer one.

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