On Thursday 24 December 2015 01:04:59 Christian Huitema wrote:
> On Wednesday, December 23, 2015 3:05 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >> Similarly, in the HKDF-Expand-Label, do we assume a final null byte
> >> for the "label"?> 
> > No. I wonder if we should instead add the '\0' explicitly in the
> > 4.8.1 for maximal clarity.
> Either that, or just remove the trailing 00 from the binary
> description.

the 0-byte is a C-ism that looks like a wart to me

neither of the previous TLS versions used null-terminated C-style 
strings so why TLS1.3 should? Especially in just one place?
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Hubert Kario
Senior Quality Engineer, QE BaseOS Security team
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