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Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Wed, 15 October 2014 16:29 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, "tls@ietf.org" <tls@ietf.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 12:29:22 -0400
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A spurious network event that gave up security properties SHOULD NOT quietly give those up on behalf of the user.

I betcha browsers soon retry with their best version, before decided when/how to fallback.

Network hiccups happen all the time. For plaintext protocols they are benign. For security protocols that would silently give up features they are not.

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