On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:29 PM, Dave Garrett <davemgarr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 07:56:13 pm Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > https://github.com/tlswg/tls13-spec/issues/292
> >
> > Presently, RFC 4492 only specifies the EC points it can support in
> > ServerHello, but does not let the server indicate which EC curves it
> > supports. Unless I'm missing something, this means that there's
> > no way for the server to indicate what groups it would support.
> >
> > That seems less than ideal. There seem like three options here:
> >
> > 1. Put it in CertificateRequest
> > 2. Send it in ServerHello
> > 3. Do nothing.
>
> I prefer #2. I don't think encryption is necessarily required for this,
> but EncryptedExtensions is fine too (Martin's 2b).
>
> I'm generally against putting it in CertificateRequest, as we're reusing
> an existing hello extension so keeping it in a hello message (or it's
> trailing encrypted field) seems best. (restricted to TLS 1.3+ clients,
> though)


This would need to be limited to 1.3 in any case because in all the other
cases
it would be illegal.

-Ekr


>
>
> Dave
>
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