Re: [TLS] TLS extension

[Eric Rescorla <ekr at networkresonance.com>]

Peter,

<chair hat on>
WTLS is not an IETF standard. Discussions of WTLS are not
really on-topic for this mailing list.
</chair hat off>

To answer a few points you raise about DTLS.


<home_pw at msn.com> writes:
> Unlike DTLS which presumably really hinges on TLS (1.2) -
> which has counter modes and AEAP to allow for (wide-area) routing of
> the datagrams 

DTLS does not depend on TLS 1.2 in any way.


> 2. We also have cleartext alerts (that presumably the network itself
> can introduce), that an implementation can choose to regard as
> fatal. One of the cleartext alerts may be time_required, which I'm not
> sure if it's the network or the wap gateway that produces this. Could
> we imagine a ICMP packet from a intermediate router influencing the
> sending DTLS in a similar way??

ICMPs are not handled by DTLS one way or the other. Rather, 
they are handled by the transport layer and/or the consuming
application, as with TLS.

-Ekr

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