a question about the kcm proposal

2015-10-12 Thread Sowmini Varadhan
Thinking back a bit about the kcm proposal: https://www.mail-archive.com/netdev@vger.kernel.org/msg78696.html I had a question: If the user-space has decided to encrypt the http/2 header using tls, the len (and other http/2 fields) is no longer in the clear for the kernel. My understanding is

Re: a question about the kcm proposal

2015-10-12 Thread Tom Herbert
> > If the user-space has decided to encrypt the http/2 header using tls, > the len (and other http/2 fields) is no longer in the clear for the kernel. > > My understanding is that http header encryption is common practice/BCP, > since the http hdr may contain a lot of identity, session and

Re: a question about the kcm proposal

2015-10-12 Thread Sowmini Varadhan
On (10/12/15 15:05), Tom Herbert wrote: > > There is a different but related problem in this space- existing TLS/DTLS > > libraries (openssl, gnutls etc) only know how to work with tcp > > or udp sockets - they do not know anything about PF_RDS or the > > newly proposed kcm socket type. > > >