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Re: E-Mail Protocol Security Measurements

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 30 July 2015 20:28 UTC

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Aaron Zauner <azet@azet.org> wrote:
    > Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> RC4 is supported by 83% of end points that support crypto, or of 83%
    >> of end points that answer TCP?

    > This percentage is based on hosts that did complete a SSL/TLS
    > handshake.

okay, so whle we might cringe at how many hosts are using weak crypto,
we might also be elated (if we had numbers) about how many hosts support
*any* crypto...

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Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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