Re: Piggybacking client hello on STARTTLS

Jeff,

Jeff Stephenson (Exchange) wrote:
> 
> Not that I'm actually advocating this, but seems that we ought to at
> least bring up the possibility of piggy-backing the TLS client hello on
> the STARTTLS command in order to save a round trip.  Personally, I'm
> against it because it would also involve merging the SMTP reply code to
> STARTTLS with (perhaps) a TLS server hello in the response.  It just
> makes something that was nice and clean messier without (IMHO) gaining
> all that much.  Do others agree?

  No I am not for doing this.  Two reasons, 1.) Not necessary and 2.)
as you say, You are really not gaining much, in fact nothing at all.

  There are several other methods of handeling this problem.  I have
posted some of what IMHO, would be much better approaches.  Others have
as well.  It just seems that there is not any consensus on which method
to use.  Sigh...
> 
> -- jeff

Regards,
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Jeffrey A. Williams
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