Off-hand, key update or re-key without new/fresh‎ randomness sounds weird.

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From: Eric Rescorla
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2015 15:37
To: Florian Weimer
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [TLS] Data volume limits



On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 3:33 PM, Florian Weimer <[email protected]> wrote:
On 12/28/2015 09:11 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:

>> You still have the added complexity that during rekey, you need to
>> temporarily switch from mere sending or receiving to at least
>> half-duplex interaction.
>>
>
> That's not intended. Indeed, you need to be able to handle the old key
> in order to send/receive the KeyUpdate. Can you elaborate on your concern?

Ah, so you want to keep the current mechanism and not inject fresh
randomness?  Isn't this fairly risky?

Can you explain the risk you are concerned about in more detail?

-Ekr



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