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Surely in most MITM box scenarios the token binding just isn't possible?

The only correct MITM box design for TLS is back-to-back client and server, and with that structure there are two TLS channels instead of the one you expected so you can't bind anything to "the" channel between your client and the destination server as there are in fact two channels.

Hacks to try to do something else invariably break and make everything worse. The resulting wreckage for TLS 1.3 took a year of engineering plus an extra year of whining MITM box owners reluctant to stop doing broken crap. We certainly don't want to encourage more of that.




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