RFC 8701
Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility (GREASE) to TLS Extensibility, January 2020
- File formats:
- Also available: XML file for editing
- 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 And Sustain Extensibility), a mechanism to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem. It reserves a set of TLS protocol values that may be advertised to ensure peers correctly handle unknown values.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.