Re: [TLS] Reference for justification of middlebox compat mode

Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> Wed, 06 December 2017 23:43 UTC

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From: Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 15:42:48 -0800
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Reference for justification of middlebox compat mode
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I would cite:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/100/materials/slides-100-tls-sessa-tls13/
(the slides, which include David's data)
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg25091.html (my email
from yesterday)

-Ekr




On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Peter Wu <peter@lekensteyn.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The current draft makes the following claim:
>
>     Field measurements have found that a significant number of middleboxes
>     misbehave when a TLS client/server pair negotiates TLS 1.3.
>
> Would it be possible to add a reference for this claim for the benefit
> of future readers? One possible (terse) reference I could find is
> https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg24517.html
> --
> Kind regards,
> Peter Wu
> https://lekensteyn.nl
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