Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

Bill Frantz <frantz@pwpconsult.com> Fri, 11 December 2009 21:14 UTC

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mike-list@pobox.com (Michael D'Errico) on Friday, December 11, 2009 wrote:

>Eric Rescorla wrote:
>> 
>> 1. Replace "cipher suite" with magic cipher suite value (MCSV) 
>>    throughout.
>
>I'm not sure we want to call it "magic" in the RFC (even though I
>am probably guilty of calling it that in previous messages).
>Perhaps "special" would be a better adjective?

Or perhaps, in a moment of candor, kludge cipher suite value (KCSV).

Cheers - Bill

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