On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Dave Garrett <davemgarr...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thursday, November 26, 2015 02:15:25 pm Ilari Liusvaara wrote:
> > I actually looked at the Editors's Copy. The description is a mess: It
> > seemingly first requires key_share extension, even for the first
> > ClientHello... Now, that extension can't be empty... And then proceeds
> > to say to omit it if client has no shares to send... Which looks like
> > it is mutually contradictionary.
>
> We went back and forth on whether to omit or require an empty extension.
> It looks like we have a mix of the two left in there that need fixing. (I
> think something got merged weird) Thanks for pointing this out.
>
> I think it might be easier if we just required the extension for all cases
> where (EC)DHE suites are offered, and have it empty to request a server
> choice, instead of an omitted extension.


Yes, we should either have that or have empty be forbidden. It's a matter
of taste
but on balance, let's go with "empty". If you want to submit a PR that
cleans
this up, I'll merge that.

-Ekr

If I remember correctly, that's what I had originally. One way or another,
> it needs to be fixed to be consistent.
>
>
> Dave
>
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