Needing TLS handshake to fail

Maxim Dounin mdounin at mdounin.ru
Wed Sep 4 14:38:04 UTC 2019


Hello!

On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 09:25:57AM -0400, Phillip Odam wrote:

[...]

> Also, the following reference was provided providing a basis for the TLS 
> handshake requirement, sections 7.2.1 and 7.2.2 - 
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246#section-7.2.1. Admittedly production 
> implementations vs RFCs don't always work well together and I'm 
> certainly not nginx expert but from this lay persons perspective I 
> certainly see value in allowing nginx to be configurable and fail the 
> TLS handshake.

Just a note: these sections do not require implimentations to 
terminate the TLS handshake.  Rather, they describe what to do if 
you want to terminate the TLS handshake.

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