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Re: [TLS] assert TLSext in renego-ServerHello instead of disable renego

Marsh Ray <marsh@extendedsubset.com> Sun, 15 November 2009 20:22 UTC

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Bodo Moeller wrote:
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> Arguably I'd rather have monitoring tell me about clients that will
> *tolerate* a handshake with a server that doesn't support the extension
> (not so much about clients that don't support the extension at all).  In
> that case, I wouldn't want these clients to send the extension on the
> initial handshake.

Good point.

These systems will probably spot unsafe renegotiations happening.

It may be that we need two bits: 'endpoint patched' and 'endpoint
configured secure'.

- Marsh

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