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Re: [TLS] Should we require implementations to send alerts?

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 15 September 2015 14:41 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Should we require implementations to send alerts?
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> Using full-duplex TCP, it's difficult to get a fatal alert over the wire if you want
> to close the connection immediately:

Yes.

But so what. )

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