On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 12:10 PM Stephen Farrell <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
> Hiya,
>
> On 21/10/2019 20:01, Rob Sayre wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:41 AM Stephen Farrell <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> My guess is that all of the above will lead to everyone
> >> always using 260 for this value, making it pointless
> >> and somewhat wasteful.
> >>
> >
> > Whether it's wasteful depends on how big typical ClientHello (without
> early
> > data) messages are. If they'll easily fit in one packet, 260 doesn't
> matter.
>
> I don't think we ought be so confident of that. TLS is
> so broadly used that there may be other circumstances
> now or in future where this would be a problem that'd
> cause ESNI to not be used. It seems prudent to use fewer
> bytes when that's possible (so long as we don't expose
> the actual SNI length).
>

I have seen MTUs under 1500 many times, but nothing under 1200. Is there
data on this? (I honestly haven't seen any)


>
> Removing the padding_length field also removes a way
> in which server configurations can be broken (if some
> server admin sets a too-low value), which is also a
> more prudent design than we currently have.
>

I think padding_length makes sense as a minimum. As a maximum, it could
actually be an attack as well.

thanks,
Rob
_______________________________________________
TLS mailing list
[email protected]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls

Reply via email to