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RFC 8449

Record Size Limit Extension for TLS, August 2018

File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Updates:

RFC 6066

Author:

M. Thomson

Stream:

IETF

Source:

tls (sec)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC8449

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Abstract

An extension to Transport Layer Security (TLS) is defined that allows endpoints to negotiate the maximum size of protected records that each will send the other.

This replaces the maximum fragment length extension defined in RFC 6066.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.