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Re: [TLS] Fallback SCSV summary

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Mon, 10 November 2014 23:24 UTC

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On 10 November 2014 13:02, Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> wrote:
> It's not clear that you'd even *want* to interoperate with such servers ...
> keeping them around would make it harder to add new actual cipher suites.

I tend to agree.  We have to be cautious about making a blanket
statement, but visible bugs like this are often strongly correlated
with other more insidious bugs (and things that are arguably not bugs,
like support for SSLv3).

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