On Jul 12, 2019, at 11:08 PM, Jouni Malinen <j...@w1.fi> wrote:
> In other words, there does not seem to be any convenient way of
> implementing this with the current version of one of the most commonly
> used TLS libraries. I can make this work by sending out a one-octet
> (0x00) TLSPlaintext as a workaround, but it does not look like I could
> make the implementation comply with the draft without changing the TLS
> library which is close to a complete showstopper for quick deployment.

  I agree.

> It would seem to make sense to me to allow the EAP-TLS 1.3 server to
> send out either an empty plaintext or a one octet plaintext to avoid
> this issue in a straightforward manner.

  We may also want to later perform additional signalling at that phase of the 
authentication.  As such, it may be good to say:

* a one octet plaintext of 0x00 should be sent
* on reception, any data received should be ignored
  * non-zero octets, or more than one octet MAY indicate future extensions

  Alan DeKok.

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