[noise] Negotiating transport message size (was: Re: NoiseSocket revision 1)

[Igor Solovyov]

Hi Trevor,

On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Trevor Perrin <trevp at trevp.net> wrote:

>
> Decryption requires the recipient to buffer an entire message, since
> the recipient has to verify the authentication tag before actually
> decrypting the ciphertext.
>
> So there needs to be some concrete limit for messages so they fit the
> recipient's buffer.


Got you.Yes, if you want to preallocate the buffer once for all following
messages, to know maximum message size in advance is useful.
So, let it be negotiated :)

Igor.
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