William Whyte <wwh...@securityinnovation.com> writes:

> Hi all,
> 
> We've updated the TLS 1.3 Quantum Safe Handshake draft to use extensions as
> suggested by DKG in Prague. All comments welcome.
> 
> There's an interesting issue here: McEliece keys, which should be
> permissible, are larger in size (about 2^20 bytes) than the maximum
> permissible extension size (2^16-1). In order to support McEliece keys it
> might be worth increasing the maximum extension size to 2^24-1 for TLS 1.3.
> Is there a strong reason for keeping the maximum size at 2^24-1, other than
> saving one byte on all the relevant length fields?

That would affect the initial client hello, which I think we're trying
to keep backwards compatible.  It might be better to just define a
rule like "if multiple extensions with the same number are present,
their values are concatenated".

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