On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 4:21 PM Carrick Bartle <cbartle...@icloud.com>
wrote:

>  It's not significant extra complexity to have this field bigger and it
> basically makes it impossible to have any structure.
>
>
> What do you mean by structure? How does a byte not provide sufficient
> "structure"?
>

It's not long enough to encode much. As a concrete example, what if the
label is actually an encrypted version of the private key? Or you have a
distributed generation algorithm that you don't want to synchronize?

-Ekr
_______________________________________________
TLS mailing list
TLS@ietf.org
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls

Reply via email to