Re: [TLS] Proposed text for removing renegotiation

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 28 May 2014 20:15 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>, Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
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> The whole point is to avoid the DH.  

I'm not sure that should be a major design point.  For the one use-case we know, do we know if those long lived xmpp connections are to small clients (such as android phones) or server to server?

	/r$

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