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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-sslv3-diediedie-00

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 04 February 2015 23:02 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-sslv3-diediedie-00
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On 5 February 2015 at 04:03, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> wrote:
> (There are a few places where the writing could be improved: it seems a bit
> odd, for example, that Section 4 refers to DTLS as a "cryptographic
> operation" that SSL 3.0 can't benefit from.  I sort of get the idea, but if
> you use non-DTLS TLS, you don't use DTLS anyway, so how does it matter for
> DTLS whether non-DTLS TLS handshakes can negotiate SSL 3.0?  However, this
> is just a detail in the rationale and doesn't affect the normative
> interpretation of the document; its overall message is very clear.)

Hi Bodo,

I've tweaked the text that you pointed out.  If you have any more
quibbles or suggestions, I'm happy to integrate changes in any way
that suits you.  Pull requests are preferred, of course:
https://github.com/tlswg/sslv3-diediedie

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