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RFC 8701
Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility (GREASE) to TLS Extensibility,January 2020
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- Status:
- INFORMATIONAL
- Author:
- D. Benjamin
- Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- tls (sec)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8701
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Abstract
This document describes GREASE (Generate Random Extensions AndSustain Extensibility), a mechanism to prevent extensibility failuresin the TLS ecosystem. It reserves a set of TLS protocol values thatmay be advertised to ensure peers correctly handle unknown values.
For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.
For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.