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Re: [TLS] I-D Action: draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-01.txt

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 23 October 2014 20:49 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:49:51 -0400
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> I think there is a significant difference between the security (in particular
> confidentiality) one gets with good and dodgy algorithms which is sufficient
> to argue that the OS design pattern is inappropriate to use with such dodgy
> algs.

I'm having trouble parsing things.  You don't mean "both good and dodgy," but rather "good compared with dodgy" or "good contrasted with dodgy"

Sorry, you IE folks are just too good with words for a poor old yank like me :) 

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