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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 16 October 2014 14:06 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav@redhat.com>, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 10:06:31 -0400
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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Buggy servers caused buggy clients which now caused silent loss of security properties.  SCSV fallback is an effective way to help break the cycle.

(And what are you RH folks drinking, anyway, to be so vehemently opposed? :)

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