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Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity

Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com> Wed, 09 April 2014 23:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Heartbleed / protocol complexity
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On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Salz, Rich <rsalz@akamai.com> wrote:
>> TLS has an ad-hoc IDL and encoding, and it IIUC doesn't adhere to its own conventions tightly enough that we could now standardize a compatible IDL+encoding and develop tooling for it.
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> I wrote a parser for "TLS IDL" and posted it to the list.  There are a handful of corrections that need to be made in order for the definitions to match the defined syntax.  The biggest one being "ASN.1Cert" looks like a field name, not a type.  The posts are in the archives, if anyone cares.  I'll mail the code to anyone who cares.

That's great news.  Can you say anything about my "IIUC" above?

Nico
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