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Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-tls13-16

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Wed, 28 September 2016 16:08 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2016 02:08:12 +1000
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Subject: Re: [TLS] draft-ietf-tls-tls13-16
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On 29 September 2016 at 02:02, Stephen Checkoway <s@pahtak.org> wrote:
> * The only time to take the client's preference into account is if the server really has no opinion on an option--e.g., two equivalent-strength cipher suites--but the client can specify a preference for an option that requires less computation/power for it. But I'm not entirely convinced that's worth the implementation cost.

I generally agree, though we just added one small exception to NSS,
and have been discussing another for a while now:  Respecting client
preference for ChaCha over GCM makes a real difference for clients
that don't have AES-NI.

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