[TLS] Data volume limits

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Tue, 15 December 2015 21:15 UTC

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Watson kindly prepared some text that described the limits on what's safe
for AES-GCM and restricting all algorithms with TLS 1.3 to that lower
limit (2^{36} bytes), even though ChaCha doesn't have the same
restriction.

I wanted to get people's opinions on whether that's actually what we want
or whether we should (as is my instinct) allow people to use ChaCha
for longer periods.

-Ekr