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Re: Banning TLS renegotiation



On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:59:31PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 03, 2017 at 02:48:55PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > I would say
> > 
> >   "a peer  SHOULD follow the TLS protocol spec for accepting
> >    or rejecting a renegotiation, but MAY close the connection
> >    abruptly"
> 
> How about this extension of the above:
> 
>   "A peer SHOULD follow the TLS protocol spec for accepting
>   or rejecting a renegotiation, but MAY close the connection
>   abruptly.  If the peer accepts renegotiation then it MUST
>   follow RFC5746, and it MAY limit the number of times per
>   connection that renegotiations are permitted in order to
>   prevent a possible Denial of Service attack."

That's fine with me.

Regards,
Daniel
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