On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 12:17:05AM +0000, Black, David wrote:
>  [G] Section 4.2 - NO, don't do this!   The option kind will be assigned to 
> TCP-ENO by
> IANA, and allowing this class of reuse:
>       a) almost certainly violates the rules for the registry from which that 
> kind
>               value is assigned.
>       b) prematurely closes off opportunities to use the option after the 
> initial
>               handshake (e.g., possibly for encryption renegotiation).

Actually,  that section (4.2) struck me as reasonable.

Ignoring 'a' for the moment,  and looking at 'b':  the whole point of this 
mechanism
is to pick / negotiate an encryption scheme.  Once picked for a given TCP 
connection
I can't really see the scheme being changed (i.e. between tcpcrypt and use-tls).

Having encryption params within the scheme being renegotiated seems likely,  
but not
changing the scheme,  as such I can't see the need to preclude reuse of the 
option
values for per scheme use once the scheme is selected.  The actual use I was 
expecting
was that the per scheme renegotiation would/could use those values for 
negotiating
new keys, or other per-scheme values.

DF

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