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Re: [TLS] Simplifying the record protocol

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com> Wed, 11 June 2014 07:44 UTC

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From: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>
To: Tom Ritter <tom@ritter.vg>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014 09:44:41 +0200
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On Tue, 2014-06-10 at 22:56 -0400, Tom Ritter wrote:


> An advantage of encrypting the content type is making it possible for
> TLS padding to be built-in for no additional bytes. 

TLS padding can be built-in for no additional bytes and for no change in
outside format of the TLS record:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-pironti-tls-length-hiding-02

regards,
Nikos

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