Re: [TLS] TLS1.3 status/expectations

[Watson Ladd <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 7:01 PM, Martin Thomson <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On 2 March 2016 at 13:55, Eric Rescorla <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> I think a "safer" profile of TLS, as in "implement the following features
>> (section XXX, YYY) and not the following (section ZZZ)" then that seems like
>> something that might potentially be a useful exercise. Depending on length,
>> this might eventually make sense to pull into TLS 1.3 as an appendix or just
>> leave as a self-contained document.
>
> Yeah, something like this would have been very helpful for TCPINC.  Or
> for protocols like COAP.
>
> I think that a description of the "good parts" of TLS 1.3 would be a
> relatively short document if it were self-contained.  The core is
> pretty simple.
>
> Though, as ekr mentioned, copying the main spec could be bad.  The
> point of something like this is to create something that would talk to
> a full implementation, not to create a protocol fork.

I'll make a pull request containing the text against the main document
then, and we can see how it looks from there.



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