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Re: [TLS] Heartbeat and padding

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 28 April 2014 13:44 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com>, TLS Mailing List <tls@ietf.org>
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> Not related to Heartbleed(tm), do we need to revisit the Heartbeat spec.

The original use-case was for DTLS, wasn't it?  We only have a single registry for extensions, and that's reasonable since the vast majority of them are applicable to both TLS (TTLS? :) and DTLS.

I think it makes sense to add another column to the extension registry, called "applicability" or something like that with values from the set (both, tls-only, dtls-only) and the default is both.

It's not just out of vengeance, honest! But I think TLS heartbeat should be at least be deprecated in 1.3.

	/r$

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