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Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 09 April 2014 22:43 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Hanno Böck <hanno@hboeck.de>
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> TLS has an ad-hoc IDL and encoding, and it IIUC doesn't adhere to its own conventions tightly enough that we could now standardize a compatible IDL+encoding and develop tooling for it.

I wrote a parser for "TLS IDL" and posted it to the list.  There are a handful of corrections that need to be made in order for the definitions to match the defined syntax.  The biggest one being "ASN.1Cert" looks like a field name, not a type.  The posts are in the archives, if anyone cares.  I'll mail the code to anyone who cares.

	/r$

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