Alan DeKok <al...@deployingradius.com> writes:

>OpenSSL has a feature SSL_MODE_AUTO_RETRY which makes it process TLS messages
>*after* the Finished message. i.e. the Session Ticket, etc. When an
>application calls SSL_Read(), all of the TLS data is processed, instead of
>just the "TLS finished" message. They've made this the default, because most
>applications get it wrong.

Asking as the author of a TLS library that has always done this, why would you
stop immediately after the Finished and leave metadata messages sitting unread
in the input stream?  Was it just some arbitrary implementation decision, or
is there a technical reason for it?

Peter.


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