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Re: [TLS] padding bug

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Wed, 25 September 2013 11:21 UTC

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Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> writes:
>Peter Gutmann wrote:
>> TLS has for some years now provided for MAC truncation to a
>> range of sizes.
>
>I believe you are confusing the max_fragment_length extension with
>truncated_hmac. 

Yep.  I'd have private email about this but I'm still working my way through
to it, see my earlier comments about the email backlog.

Peter.

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