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

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Fri, 24 October 2014 14:31 UTC

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Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 10:31:23 -0400
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> Leaving a cipher suite out is only practical once it is no longer the best shared
> cipher with any peers.  

I don't agree with this blanket statement.  Sometimes nothing trumps "something is better than nothing."

When the IETF's leading cryptographers say not to use something, then you're better off with plaintext than a false sense of security for your users.

	/r$

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