I don’t know if there are any deployment of RFC 4507.  If not, we are safe; 
otherwise there are interop problems for session resumption.

Xuelei

> On Jun 5, 2019, at 2:19 PM, Jamil Nimeh <jamil.j.ni...@oracle.com> wrote:
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> Hi Xuelei,
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> Given that 4507 is obsoleted in favor of 5077 is there really that much value 
> to supporting this older/broken extension format?  Do we know of clients that 
> still adhere to 4507?  Otherwise it seems better to stick to 5077 and the 
> approach in TLS 1.3 and not try to go back and support an earlier obsoleted 
> approach to this feature.
>> 
>> These lines took me to the cooperation behaviors between RFC 5077 and RFC 
>> 4507.  It looks like we don't support RFC 4507 format of SessionTicket 
>> extension.  As RFC 5077 and RFC 4507 use the same extension ID for different 
>> extension format.  There are potential compatibility issues, and make 
>> session resumption impossible.  I would like to have a workaround to accept 
>> both formats.  For example, using the a cookie at the beginning of the 
>> ticket, as described in appendix-A of RFC 5077.
>> 
>> 
>> I will review the rest of this class in the afternoon or tomorrow.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Xuelei 
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