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Re: [TLS] RFC-4366-bis and the unrecognized_name(112) alert

Peter Sylvester <peter.sylvester@edelweb.fr> Mon, 14 June 2010 18:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] RFC-4366-bis and the unrecognized_name(112) alert
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I wro

the  client protocol client needs
> a way to communicate the desired dnsname to TLS layer
> and to the application entity,  the latter not necessarily in theory
> if TLS is always used. SNI is one way to do the first.
I am wrong here. The target is not the TLS layer. Rather
the SNI is an addressing information targeted to the application
piggypacked to a TLS protocol element.

Could also be done by some kind prefixing application data unit
followed by some starttls like thing to enter the TLS layer.

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