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Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS

Paul Hoffman <paul.hoffman@vpnc.org> Tue, 09 October 2007 22:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] security levels for TLS
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Ekr's right: this is not a tractable problem. We could certainly come 
up with some numbers, but they would be meaningless (and therefore 
dangerous) with so much context that we might as well have just given 
the context by itself.

The fact that the W3C wants to wade into this swamp should not lead 
us there, other than to maybe offer them a rope back to the shore 
where they started.

--Paul Hoffman, Director
--VPN Consortium


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