Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv

mrex@sap.com (Martin Rex) Fri, 24 January 2014 18:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Call for acceptance of draft-moeller-tls-downgrade-scsv
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Eric Rescorla wrote:
> WG Members,
> 
> This message is a call for acceptance of
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bmoeller-tls-downgrade-scsv-01
> 
> As a TLS WG item.
> 
> Please provide any comments on this action by Feb 7.

-1

I'm strongly opposed to a scheme whose only purpose in life is
to make TLS handshakes _fail_ based on bogus heuristics by the
wrong communication peer.

-Martin