Re: [TLS] RFC 6961 implementations ?

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Sat, 16 May 2015 01:56 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
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So now I'm curious, why is something that nothing seems to implement and no-
one really seems to care about a standards-track RFC?  Shouldn't it be
experimental?

Peter.