Andrei Popov wrote:
> Hi Ilari,
> 
>>
>> What sort of usecase you have in mind for this?
>
> This is to support a fairly common website design where the landing
> page does not require client auth, but subsequent request to a
> protected resource triggers client authentication within an existing
> TLS connection.
>
> In TLS<=1.2, this was accomplished via renegotiation. In TLS1.3,
> there is no renegotiation, so we need an alternative solution if we
> want to support these existing sites over TLS1.3.

While this might have been the structure of a few legacy sites,
this will meet the axe longe before TLSv1.3 is done, because
HTTP/2 prohibits renegotiation with TLSv1.2 as well.

R.I.P. renegotiation.

-Martin

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