[TLS] tickets or sesssions or both (oh my)

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Tue, 02 September 2014 17:05 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
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Right now we have sessions (server-side, possible scalability issues) and tickets (client-side, hard to make work well with PFS).

A poll for this community: is one likely to be more strategic, or are both likely to be important in the near term  (say within two years after TLS 1.3 is done).

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