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Re: [TLS] padding bug

Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@gnutls.org> Tue, 24 September 2013 08:09 UTC

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On 09/24/2013 07:17 AM, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> Just a small amount of Schadenfreude here when I point out that as I was
> reading through the long list of GnuTLS security advisories at
> http://www.gnutls.org/security.html it seems that a number of them would have
> been avoided through the use of the EtM that Nikos has been so strongly
> opposed to :-).

I don't understand what does this prove. I was one of the first to ask
for a solution to the issue. Pointing an issue in your draft doesn't
mean I'm against solving the problem.

regards,
Nikos

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