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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Tue, 21 October 2014 16:07 UTC

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On 10/20/14 at 10:32 AM, watsonbladd@gmail.com (Watson Ladd) wrote:

>After all these years you would think software vendors would test proper
>version negotiation before release.

Agreed. It doesn't take much of a test suite to check that a 1.2 
server receiving 1.3 or 2.0 does the right thing. You don't even 
have to know what exactly 1.2 or 2.0 means since the server 
under test is going to offer its highest protocol: 1.2.

Cheers - Bill

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