On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:15 PM, Dave Garrett <davemgarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, September 17, 2015 06:58:19 pm Martin Rex wrote: > > If one of the communication peers closes the network connection > > prior to completion of the TLS handshake, then the result is a 100% > > interoperability failure. How is a "MUST send alert" supposed to > > affect that outcome when the server does not send one? > > Is it a 120% interop failure then? > > Well, yeah, sort of. :p > > If it's going to fail, I want it to fail in a way we can get it fixed. If > I get a server in one of the giant tracking meta-bugs for servers that have > TLS failures and I can see what is wrong, we can point to something to get > fixed. If not, then we have nothing to go on and it probably won't be fixed > ever. > Whether or not the server sends an alert doesn't matter for that. The user gets a cryptic error message either way, and bugs get filed and tracked. Here are two of many examples: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704990 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698203 Cheers, Brian -- https://briansmith.org/
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