RFC 8449: Record Size Limit Extension for TLS
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
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.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC8449
- Published
- August 2018
- Authors
- M. Thomson
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- sec
- Pages
- 8
- Also known as
- —
- Updates:
- RFC 6066
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