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Re: [tcpinc] Review of draft-bittau-tcpinc-tcpeno-01

Ilari Liusvaara <ilari.liusvaara@elisanet.fi> Mon, 24 August 2015 14:31 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpinc] Review of draft-bittau-tcpinc-tcpeno-01
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 07:22:23AM -0700, Watson Ladd wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 6:33 AM, David Mazieres
> 
> This is a misreading: I'm proposing that at any time there is only one
> suite that everyone uses, and versioning is just for transitions.

This becomes highly problematic when one needs to:
- Support multiple security levels.
- There isn't one technically (meaning, ignore legal constraints)
  superrior algorithm.


-Ilari

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