On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 4:59 PM, Xuelei Fan <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> If empty key_share vector is used to indicate to request a server choice,
>>
>
> That's not what it means. It means "I have no idea what your preferences
> are, so tell
> me which of the groups I support you prefer". Thus, you still need
> supported_groups
> to indicate the groups you support.
>
> Make sense to me.

Thanks,
Xuelei


> -Ekr
>
>
>
> I think it is not necessary to have  "supported_groups" extension as
>> mandatory any more.  key_share extension can be used for the supported
>> named groups.   "supported_groups" extension can be used for backward
>> compatibility (if TLS 1.2 fade out in the future, need no "supported_groups"
>> extension any more).
>>
>> Or, if both are needed as mandatory, may be better to separate functions
>> that "supported_groups" extension defines the supported named groups and
>> preference, and key_share defines the shares only (no supported groups, no
>> preference, the groups must be defined in  "supported_groups" extension).
>>
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>
>
>> Xuelei
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 7:47 AM, Eric Rescorla <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 3:36 PM, Dave Garrett <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Thursday, November 26, 2015 06:02:09 pm Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>>> > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Dave Garrett <[email protected]
>>>> >
>>>> > wrote:
>>>> > > On Thursday, November 26, 2015 02:15:25 pm Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
>>>> > > > I actually looked at the Editors's Copy. The description is a
>>>> mess: It
>>>> > > > seemingly first requires key_share extension, even for the first
>>>> > > > ClientHello... Now, that extension can't be empty... And then
>>>> proceeds
>>>> > > > to say to omit it if client has no shares to send... Which looks
>>>> like
>>>> > > > it is mutually contradictionary.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > We went back and forth on whether to omit or require an empty
>>>> extension.
>>>> > > It looks like we have a mix of the two left in there that need
>>>> fixing. (I
>>>> > > think something got merged weird) Thanks for pointing this out.
>>>> > >
>>>> > > I think it might be easier if we just required the extension for
>>>> all cases
>>>> > > where (EC)DHE suites are offered, and have it empty to request a
>>>> server
>>>> > > choice, instead of an omitted extension.
>>>> >
>>>> > Yes, we should either have that or have empty be forbidden. It's a
>>>> matter of taste
>>>> > but on balance, let's go with "empty". If you want to submit a PR
>>>> that cleans
>>>> > this up, I'll merge that.
>>>>
>>>> ->  https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/pull/349
>>>>
>>>> There's one last decision, though: does "empty" mean empty
>>>> client_shares vector or empty "extension_data" to save 2 bytes? I think
>>>> it's cleaner to just keep the same extension structure for all cases and
>>>> have an empty shares vector, which is what I have in the current PR.
>>>
>>>
>>> Empty vector seems dominant.
>>>
>>> -Ekr
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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