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Re: [TLS] Wrapping up cached info

Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com> Wed, 19 May 2010 16:53 UTC

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Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 11:52:27 -0500
From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@oracle.com>
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On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 07:19:00AM -0700, Joseph Salowey (jsalowey) wrote:
> To me this sounds like a good approach.  I have some questions on
> whether the hash chosen is dependent upon the cipher suite used below.

I agree, this works for me, provided the hashes are not truncated.
("This" == the client caches the choice of hash function and uses that
in its hello; if the hash function changes then the client cannot cache
that one time, but can cache subsequently.)

Nico
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