" decode_error A message could not be decoded because some field was
out of the specified range or the length of the message was
incorrect. "
I suppose you could argue that:
" This alert is used for errors where the message does
not conform to the formal protocol syntax. "
Rules that out, but I think I'm willing to stretch it here.
-Ekr
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:28 AM, Hubert Kario <hka...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Current draft states:
>
> Alert messages ({{alert-protocol}}) MUST NOT be fragmented across
> records.
>
> and
>
> Implementations MUST NOT send zero-length fragments of Handshake or
> Alert types, even if those fragments contain padding.
>
> But I don't see what is the expected behaviour of the side receiving such
> malformed messages.
>
> Especially the fragmented alerts are unique in that any other message type
> can
> be fragmented, so no rules define how to handle incorrectly fragmented
> messages. Or at least I don't see them.
> --
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> Hubert Kario
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