On 18 March 2017 at 20:36, Peter Gutmann <pgut...@cs.auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> Incidentally, has anyone else who's implemented this dealt in the weird
> omission of 8K by using the logical value 5 that follows 1, 2, 3, 4 for 512,
> 1K, 2K, and 4K?  In many cases 8K is just what you need, it halves memory
> consumption while being large enough to not have to worry about fragmenting
> handshake messages.

No matter how much of a good idea that is, you would risk handshake
failure by doing so.  Compliant server implementations are required to
send an "illegal_parameter" alert if you send that.

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