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Re: [saag] AD review of draft-iab-crypto-alg-agility-06

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Mon, 24 August 2015 21:45 UTC

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On 24/08/15 22:40, Salz, Rich wrote:
>> I agree this is the problem/poster child for this discussion.  I'd rather phrase it
>> that in some cases, deprecated crypto will be used when libraries/software
>> can't be updated rather than saying it's okay because it falls into OS.  But this
>> may just be me.
> 
> It's not just you. :)

And me too. However, there was strong push back to that from apps folks
when we debated this before. So even though I think all 3 of us are
correct, I think we're in the rough. But no harm validating that again.

S.

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