Re: [TLS] Comments on various things on agenda (Was: Re: TLS Interim - update and agenda)

Stephen Checkoway <s@pahtak.org> Mon, 09 March 2015 19:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Comments on various things on agenda (Was: Re: TLS Interim - update and agenda)
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On Mar 9, 2015, at 2:19 PM, Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> wrote:

> Generally specs get exactly one MTI.

We should reevaluate that. Having a single MTI leads to situations like IMAP's STARTTLS (RFC 3501) which makes RC4 the only MTI.

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Stephen Checkoway