Re: [TLS] Data volume limits

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 16 December 2015 04:11 UTC

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On 16 December 2015 at 15:08, Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> wrote:
> We could just make the threshold a configurable parameter, with default/maximum at 2^32 bytes. Each endpoint could just provide its threshold in a new extension. Both get to specify what they want and it could be lowered arbitrarily for testing or panic fix.

That sounds more complex than the current option.