[openssl-dev] [openssl.org #3908] Patch fixing some heartbeat issues (vs latest git master)

[Matt Caswell]

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On 13/06/15 14:43, Hanno Böck wrote:
> Serious question: Is there any valid use case for heartbeats in TLS
> or DTLS? (With valid use case I mean something like "I use it for
> this system", not answers like "you could use it for xy")

I had always understood the argument in favour of heartbeat for DTLS
to be:
1) PMTU discovery
2) Keep-alive functionality

I've never heard a good argument for TLS (PMTU is irrelevant for TLS,
and TCP provides keep-alive).

Matt
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