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PROPOSED STANDARD

Authors:

A. Ghedini
V. Vasiliev

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IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8879

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Abstract

In TLS handshakes, certificate chains often take up the majority ofthe bytes transmitted.

This document describes how certificate chains can be compressed toreduce the amount of data transmitted and avoid some round trips.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.