> . The design is just plain wrong.

Is that statement the benefit of hindsight knowledge, or do you have a more 
intelligent thought process behind it? (I can imagine the all-knowing smirk in 
the background, but I'd really like to know :-)

- DM

On Apr 23, 2014, at 01:06 AM, Max Rottenkolber <[email protected]> wrote:

>> From what I understand about the bug (I have not seen the code) it sounds
> like data length information
>> arrived both directly and indirectly in the client message and that a
> conflict between them was not
>> scrutinized. 
> 
> No. The bug was that the keep alive protocol in SSL mandates the server to
> echo arbitrary data back to the client. The bounds checks were wrong too,
> but at that stage it really doesn't matter. The design is just plain wrong.
> 
> 
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