Re: [TLS] Unified Client Authentication

2016-02-21 Thread Martin Thomson
On 21 February 2016 at 11:33, Watson Ladd wrote: > Currently we client authenticate after handshake and during handshake. > Why not unify these by making all client authentication take place > after the handshake? This will simplify the state machine. I believe that we discussed this extensively

Re: [TLS] Unified Client Authentication

2016-02-21 Thread Eric Rescorla
This was discussed at the TLS interim and the argument against was that there was limited demand for the post-handshake mode and that people wanted to have a mode they were very comfortable with as the "main" thing. Of course, it may be time to revisit that decision. -Ekr On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at