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Re: [TLS] ban more old crap

Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com> Sat, 25 July 2015 19:01 UTC

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From: Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [TLS] ban more old crap
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On Saturday, July 25, 2015 01:18:49 pm Viktor Dukhovni wrote:
> I would go further, and say that "prohibiting RC4" in any sense
> that is more than prohibiting its use as the final outcome of a
> handshake would be a rather counter-productive strategy.
> 
> Servers and clients are strongly encouraged to not choose it, but
> to reject connections from peers that offer it for interoperability
> with others would just create a mess that would be operationally
> challenging.  RC4 is dying, just let it fade away into insignificance.

I agree. The current draft language of not offering or negotiating
RC4 is fine, as-is. My proposal of stopping tolerance of garbage
suite offers is just for <112-bit junk.


Dave

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