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Re: [TLS] Should we require implementations to send alerts?

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Fri, 18 September 2015 22:14 UTC

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On 9/18/15 at 4:27 AM, hkario@redhat.com (Hubert Kario) wrote:

>except that a TLS1.3 version intolerant implementation won't 
>show its ugly head until TLS1.4 gets deployed

Is there a reason a test suite can't offer TLS 1.4, even if we 
don't know what it is? The TLS implementation under test should 
gracefully step back to TLS 1.3.

Cheers - Bill

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