Hi Ekr, this is great! I just wanted to suggest that, instead of obscuring
the word "master", we add a (foot)note to the text explaining its
persistence in the spec and give some historical context.

Best,
Chris P.

On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 9:11 AM Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've just posted draft-rescorla-tls-rfc8446-bis-00.
>
> This document does two things:
>
> 1. It rolls up all the various errata that have been filed for
>    RFC 8446. Some of these have created some reader confusion
>    and so hopefully this will help.
>
> 2. It renames the "master" secrets to "main" secrets in service
>    of more inclusive language [0]
>
>
> My intention here is not to make technical changes but just to produce
> a document that's easier to work with.  If there are other pieces of
> text that you think need to be fixed, now would be a good time to flag
> them.  I am working on this document at
> https://github.com/ekr/tls13-spec
>
> Thanks to David Benjamin for suggesting this and talking over the
> mechanics.
>
> -Ekr
>
> [0] Note that I was not totally unable to remove "master" because the
> key schedule labels include it. However, I have removed it from the
> text and I think we should probably change the labels to hex to
> obscure it.
>
>
>
>
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