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Re: [TLS] Confirming consensus: TLS1.3->TLS*

Rob Stradling <rob.stradling@comodo.com> Fri, 02 December 2016 16:48 UTC

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On 02/12/16 14:53, Thomas Pornin wrote:
<snip>
> Commercial CA tend to sell "SSL certificates", not "TLS certificates"
> or "SSL/TLS certificates".

It's worse than that.  Many customers, and even some salespeople, seem 
to think that we sell "SSLs".

-- 
Rob Stradling
Senior Research & Development Scientist
COMODO - Creating Trust Online

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