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Re: [TLS] Server time

Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> Wed, 08 April 2015 10:06 UTC

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From: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
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On Tue, Apr 07, 2015 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> I don't know yet if they can be persuaded to adopt
> DTLS (maybe lack of server-side state is absolutely critical to them).

The lack of server-side state really is important to them.  There
are too many clients to keep track of.  I also think they want to
avoid having the crypto reduce the accuracy too much.  But I think
both problems can be solved.


Kurt

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