On Tue 2015-11-17 12:09:30 -0500, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> The concern here is backward compatibility with inspection middleboxes which
> expect the length field to be in a particular place. We agreed in Seattle to
> wait for early deployment experience before modifying the header to move
> the length.
In particular, if we're going to make a change to the TLS record header,
the change would be to remove the version and the type entirely, leaving
only two octets of length on each record. Is a two-octet offset going
to be problematic?
--dkg
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