[ruby-core:46292] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #6503] Support for the NPN extension to TLS/SSL

On 2012/07/06 16:10, MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet) wrote:
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> Issue #6503 has been updated by MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet).
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> duerst (Martin D端rst) wrote:
>>   Just a small detail: That should be IETF politics, I guess. But I'm also
>>   not familiar with that corner of the IETF, sorry.
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> Just out of curiosity - because IETF is in charge of the TLS extension registry?
> That's what I think I understood from [1] at least:
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>> TLS ExtensionType Registry: Future values are allocated via IETF Consensus

Yes. More generally, IANA is only a clerical office function.

Regards,   Martin.


> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5246#section-12
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> Feature #6503: Support for the NPN extension to TLS/SSL
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6503#change-27850
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> Author: igrigorik (Ilya Grigorik)
> Status: Assigned
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: MartinBosslet (Martin Bosslet)
> Category: ext
> Target version: 2.0.0
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> OpenSSL 1.0.1+ added support for Next Protocol Negotiation (NPN) extensions. A couple of relevant links:
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> - Google technical note: https://technotes.googlecode.com/git/nextprotoneg.html
> - IETF draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-02
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> NPN allows the client to negotiate the session protocol as part of the TLS handshake (ex, "http 1.1", or "spdy/v{1,2,3}"). To support SPDY we need NPN support within OpenSSL core in Ruby. The API is already implemented in OpenSSL 1.0.1+, so it's a matter of adding support in Ruby core.
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> Sister bug for Python 3.3: http://bugs.python.org/issue14204
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