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Re: [TLS] Rizzo claims implementation attach, should be interesting

Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com> Wed, 21 September 2011 01:17 UTC

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From: Martin Rex <mrex@sap.com>
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 03:19:50 +0200
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Rizzo claims implementation attach, should be interesting
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Nico Williams wrote:
> 
> I wasn't there.  I don't know what it was designed for.  But here's
> the thing: why shouldn't the designers have assumed that some of the
> data sent over SSL might be untrusted?  On what grounds would it have
> been OK to say "no untrusted data, please"?  And where was this
> restriction documented?

Btw. in my reading, it is documented in TLS v1.0 (rfc2246)

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2246#section-6

                     Any protocol designed for use over TLS must be
   carefully designed to deal with all possible attacks against it.

-Martin

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