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Re: [TLS] A flags extension

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 26 March 2019 08:18 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Martin Thomson <mt@lowentropy.net>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] A flags extension
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Subject: Re: [TLS] A flags extension
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>    This needs more space for each flag.  8 bits is a pretty small space.  If you are concerned with the size of the result, we have some variable-length integer encodings you could try.
  
Enh, just take 16 bits.  Nobody will ever need more than 640k

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