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Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Mon, 17 October 2016 17:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Deprecating alert levels
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On Monday, October 17, 2016 01:04:18 pm Martin Rex wrote:
> This list is already missing the warning-level "unrecognized_name" alert,
> and such a change would imply that all new/unrecognized alerts are going
> to be treated as fatal forever (i.e. that no new warning-level alerts
> can ever be defined).

That's already true:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tls-tls13-16#section-6
https://tlswg.github.io/tls13-spec/#alert-protocol
"Unknown alert types MUST be treated as fatal."

Changelog says this change was made for draft 14.


Dave

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