Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Fri, 11 December 2009 19:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation
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On 12/11/09 12:36 PM, Michael D'Errico wrote:
> Eric Rescorla wrote:
>>
>> 1. Replace "cipher suite" with magic cipher suite value (MCSV)   
>> throughout.
> 
> I'm not sure we want to call it "magic" in the RFC (even though I
> am probably guilty of calling it that in previous messages).
> Perhaps "special" would be a better adjective?

I think we'd rather be magic than "special" ;-)