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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

CodesInChaos <codesinchaos@gmail.com> Wed, 15 October 2014 12:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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I think the question is about the number of buggy servers (and I think
firewalls or proxies) that don't implement version negotiation
correctly and thus cause clients which want to interoperate with them
to do the risky downgrade retry dance.

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