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Re: [TLS] BoringSSL's TLS test suite

Henrick Hellström <henrick@streamsec.se> Mon, 26 September 2016 00:47 UTC

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To: Jim Schaad <ietf@augustcellars.com>, 'David Benjamin' <davidben@google.com>, tls@ietf.org
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Subject: Re: [TLS] BoringSSL's TLS test suite
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On 2016-09-26 02:34, Jim Schaad wrote:
> No, it appears that I messed this up. (:  It should be required and not absent.

OK, but it is strange. There are older implementations that predate RFC 
5912 by more than a decade that did omit NULL parameters. I know that 
because I encountered them and had to account for them back in 2002, 
iirc. If this is indeed a mistake, you were not the first to make it.

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