On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 8:59 AM, Yoav Nir <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Two things that bothered me that I think have not been mentioned by either
> Mirja or David:
>
> Section 2 says: "If the TLS handshake fails for non-cryptographic reasons
> … endpoints SHOULD behave as if the the TCP-TLS option was not present.”
> I’m missing what counts as “cryptographic” vs not. So there is one
> example: no matching ciphers, but we need a bit more: What about an
> unsupported public key on the server? What about an invalid signature? What
> about a bad Finished message? What about an unrecognized record type? An
> unrecognized handshake message?
>
> Second thing I’m missing is about how we get from the state of negotiating
> TLS to the state of behaving as if the TCP-TLS option was not present.
> Obviously with a fatal error (or “cryptographic reason”) the side that
> detected the failure closes the TCP connection. That’s the easy part. But
> what if we have a non-fatal (in the sense of tcpinc) issue? Does the
> detecting side send an alert? Does the other side begin transmitting
> plaintext immediately following the alert?
>
> Suppose the Client processes the Server’s ServerHello and is not happy
> (maybe there’s a missing extension). It sends an Alert, but the server is
> still sending the other messages (key share, How do we know at which point
> the server can abort sending records and start sending plaintext? I think
> the synchronization mechanism should be explained.
>

Yeah, I am starting to think I was getting too clever here and it would be
better
to just say "tear down the connection"

-Ekr


> HTH
>
> Yoav
>
>
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