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Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 09 April 2014 21:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity
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On 9 April 2014 14:25, Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de> wrote:
> If it is decided that a new extension is needed it
>   should be as simple as possible.

That's a motherhood statement.  Yes, RFC 6520 could have been simpler,
but it does provide a valuable function.  The payload included.

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