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Re: [TLS] Justification

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Wed, 12 May 2010 17:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Justification
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Adam Langley wrote:
 > This is very close to the three packet limit.

What is this three packet limit you speak of?

Mike




Adam Langley wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Brian Smith <brian@briansmith.org> wrote:
>> I don't think that a caching mechanism based on hashing the OCSP responses is going to be optimal for this. A different caching mechanism that allows the client to ask specifically for only *newer* (not just *different*) OCSP responses would be much better.
> 
> The specific case that I'm worried about is a client connecting to a
> server for which the previously cached OCSP responses have expired.
> 
> As an example, consider a server which returns two certificates: 806
> and 807 bytes long. The OCSP responses for these certs are 1085 bytes
> long. So the total return is 3783 bytes, not including the overhead of
> the ServerHello etc. This is very close to the three packet limit.
> 
> 
> AGL

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