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Ladd review1 #607

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@ekr ekr commented Feb 25, 2024

This addresses most of the comments in @wbl's review, except for (1) whether we should recommend grease-psk and (2) restructuring the text around ClientHelloOuterAAD.

@ekr ekr requested a review from chris-wood as a code owner February 25, 2024 21:10
@ekr ekr requested review from davidben and removed request for chris-wood February 25, 2024 21:10
bit better. I also removed some redundant text.
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ekr commented Feb 25, 2024

Updated to restructure the text around ClientHelloOuterAAD.

@@ -1217,6 +1231,13 @@ ClientHellos, as this allows a network attacker to disclose the contents of this
ClientHello, including the SNI. It MAY attempt to use another server from the
DNS results, if one is provided.

In order to ensure that the retry mechanism works successfully servers
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nit: "ensure" twice in one sentence

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In order to ensure that the retry mechanism works successfully servers
In order to guarantee that the retry mechanism works successfully servers

forbids "encrypted_client_hello" in OuterExtensions. This ensures the
unauthenticated portion of ClientHelloOuter is not incorporated into
ClientHelloInner.
An earlier iteration of this specification only
encrypted and authenticated the "server_name" extension, which left the overall
ClientHello vulnerable to an analogue of this attack.
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Orthogonal: Do we want to add a note for the RFC editor to drop this text about "an earlier version of this specification"?

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No, I think this is helpful

Co-authored-by: Christopher Patton <[email protected]>
@ekr ekr merged commit 1ed98b5 into tlswg:master Mar 1, 2024
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