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Re: [TLS] Justification

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Wed, 12 May 2010 16:16 UTC

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Cc: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>, "Kemp, David P." <DPKemp@missi.ncsc.mil>, tls@ietf.org
Subject: Re: [TLS] Justification
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Adam Langley wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> wrote:
>> Can someone please remind me why we want cached-info?  It seems that
>> the problems it creates aren't worth the small optimization it might
>> provide.
> 
> In order to support multi-ocsp stapling in the future without
> overflowing the initcwnd limit.

I know what OCSP is, but not the rest.  Even so, shouldn't we wait
until this "future" need exists before we try to optimize it?

Or better yet, design multi-ocsp stapling itself to be optimized
the way you want.

Mike

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