Question

After the encryption stage in SSL, the maximum length of each fragment is

(a) 2^14+1028

(b) 2^14+2048

(c) 2^16+1028

(d) 2^16+2048

This question was addressed to me by my school teacher while I was bunking the class.

Asked question is from Secure Socket Layer topic in chapter Internet Protocol, Network Addressing and Transport Level Security of Cryptograph & Network Security

Answer 1

The correct answer is (b) 2^14+2048

Easy explanation: Encryption may not increase the content length by more than 1024 bytes, so the  total length may not exceed 2^14+2048.