Indeed. It doesn't seem useful to carry around two fixed bytes for alignment reasons
-Ekr On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <[email protected] > wrote: > On Tue 2015-11-17 12:09:30 -0500, Eric Rescorla wrote: > > The concern here is backward compatibility with inspection middleboxes > which > > expect the length field to be in a particular place. We agreed in > Seattle to > > wait for early deployment experience before modifying the header to move > > the length. > > In particular, if we're going to make a change to the TLS record header, > the change would be to remove the version and the type entirely, leaving > only two octets of length on each record. Is a two-octet offset going > to be problematic? > > --dkg >
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