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Re: [TLS] TLS and KCI vulnerable handshakes

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Mon, 17 August 2015 16:08 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] TLS and KCI vulnerable handshakes
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Subject: Re: [TLS] TLS and KCI vulnerable handshakes
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> I was more interested in the motivation.  Same for Apple,
> why would you implement something that pretty much no-one else (at the
> time) supported, and for good reason?

Perhaps because this was a year before Snowden and the mindset was unquestioning complete RFC implementation?

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