On Tue, Mar 10, 2020, at 14:17, Watson Ladd wrote: > One thing I noticed from my reading is there is no gain from knowing > an extension will be present if one doesn't also know the value.
That is only true if the extension has a value. (See also flags) > I could imagine SNI being very useful to include, and knowing the order > of extension values permits their omission, keeping only the length. I believe that is the idea: put the extension at a fixed location so that you don't have to signal its type, just its value. > This does mean very little freedom to add new unknown extensions. I don't think that is necessarily true. _______________________________________________ TLS mailing list TLS@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/tls