Re: [TLS] Question about Large Record Sizes draft and the TLS design

2024-03-19 Thread Jan-Frederik Rieckers
On 20.03.24 11:08, David Benjamin wrote: I can't say what was going on in the SSLv3 days, but yes record size limits are important for memory. Whatever the maximum record size is, the peer can force you to buffer that many bytes in memory. That means the maximum record size is actually a DoS pa

Re: [TLS] Question about Large Record Sizes draft and the TLS design

2024-03-19 Thread Salz, Rich
* Whatever the maximum record size is, the peer can force you to buffer that many bytes in memory. That means the maximum record size is actually a DoS parameter for the protocol. Absolutely true. If you have a limit, attackers will try to push your server up to and over the limit and try t

Re: [TLS] Question about Large Record Sizes draft and the TLS design

2024-03-19 Thread David Benjamin
I can't say what was going on in the SSLv3 days, but yes record size limits are important for memory. Whatever the maximum record size is, the peer can force you to buffer that many bytes in memory. That means the maximum record size is actually a DoS parameter for the protocol. On Wed, Mar 20, 20