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Adam Langley authored
Prior to TLS 1.2, the handshake had a pleasing property that one could incrementally hash it and, from that, get the needed hashes for both the CertificateVerify and Finished messages. TLS 1.2 introduced negotiation for the signature and hash and it became possible for the handshake hash to be, say, SHA-384, but for the CertificateVerify to sign the handshake with SHA-1. The problem is that one doesn't know in advance which hashes will be needed and thus the handshake needs to be buffered. Go ignored this, always kept a single handshake hash, and any signatures over the handshake had to use that hash. However, there are a set of servers that inspect the client's offered signature hash functions and will abort the handshake if one of the server's certificates is signed with a hash function outside of that set. https://robertsspaceindustries.com/ is an example of such a server. Clearly not a lot of thought happened when that server code ...
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