rfc-8701

Applying Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility (GREASE) to TLS Extensibility

D. Benjamin
date2020-01 streamIETF areasec wgtls statusINFORMATIONAL pages12 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8701 doi10.17487/RFC8701
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.