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Re: [TLS] TLS 1.2 Long-term Support Profile draft posted

Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz> Tue, 22 March 2016 09:55 UTC

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From: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>
To: Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com>
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Hubert Kario <hkario@redhat.com> writes:

>it doesn't explain where this "RSA-SHA-256" is used. IMHO it is ambiguous.
>
>The "no MAC truncation" is also not explicit about what the sizes should be.

Well can you suggest some wording?  I can't see how much more unambiguous a
statement like "no MAC truncation" can be.

Peter.

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