Hi,

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 12:02:55PM +0200, Jan Just Keijser wrote:
> It should be possible to add negotiation without completely breaking 
> backwards compatibility; right now, when a server pushes an option to 
> the client that is unrecognized the client will print a warning but it 
> will not abort. This could be used to push a 'negotation request' - if 
> the client responds then a negotation phase can start , during which the 
> encryption key, hashing cipher, MTU settings etc can be negotiated. If 
> the client does not respond the server would need to assume that it's a 
> 2.3 or older client.

Maybe I'm a bit naive, but since the data layer cipher is independent of
the TLS cipher anyway, can't we just "push cipher xxx"?

Or is push/pull crypted with the data layer cipher?

gert
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