Re: TLS Server Name Indication and IDNA?

2008-10-24 Thread Paul Hoffman
RFC 4366 is somewhat of a mess. I do not remember the authors asking the authors of IDNA (of which I am one) about what they should do. FWIW, I'm not sure why this would be on the cryptography list, but I'm not sure of that for most of the "we can design a better UI" threads either. What sh

TLS Server Name Indication and IDNA?

2008-10-24 Thread Victor Duchovni
I am considering adding TLS Server Name Indication support in the Postfix SMTP server and client. I am puzzled by the exceedingly terse description of the semantics of the HostName sent in the SNI extension: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4366#section-3.1 If the hostname labels contain