Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

[Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]>]

At Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:37:14 -0600,
Nicolas Williams wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 02:02:44PM -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > I've been going through the list discussion on
> > draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation and wanted to try to close on some of the
> > edits people have proposed.
> > 
> > 4. Channel bindings: replace the end of S 1. with:
> > 
> >    "The data used in the extension is similar to, but not the same as, the
> >    channel binding data used in [I-D.altman-tls-channel-bindings], however
> >    this extension is not a generic-purpose RFC 5056 channel binding
> >    facility."
> > 
> >    Nico, did you have other text you wanted?
> 
> RFC5056 needs to be an actual, informative reference.  Also, since we
> use both Finished messages this resembles the tls-unique-for-telnet CB
> most:
> 
>    The data used in the extension is similar to, but not the same as,
>    the tls-unique and/or tls-unique-for-telnet channel bindings
>    described in [I-D.altman-tls-channel-bindings], however this
>    extension is not a generic-purpose RFC 5056 [RFC5056] channel binding
>    facility."
 
Sold.

-Ekr