Re: TLS renegotiation

On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 12:38:04AM +0200, Yoav Nir wrote:
> On 29/1/14 7:41 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
> 
> Ilari suggested that some HTTP response will cause the client to
> start a new connection. This gets us around the coalescing issue.
> But how can the server know that this is a new connection that
> should include a certificate?  Are we bound to make a new TLS
> extension saying  "I want to mutually-authenticate" ? Maybe another
> SCSV? Either way, I don't see a way to do this without changing TLS
> or else forcing everyone to use #2.

Oh yeah, the problem is that the client can't properly send a
certificate without server sending CertificateRequest first, and
sending CertificateRequest seems to have unwanted side effects...

So that won't work.

-Ilari

Received on Wednesday, 29 January 2014 23:05:55 UTC