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Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-ssl2-must-not-03.txt> (Prohibiting SSL Version 2.0) to Proposed Standard

Matt McCutchen <matt@mattmccutchen.net> Thu, 02 December 2010 05:23 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-ssl2-must-not-03.txt> (Prohibiting SSL Version 2.0) to Proposed Standard
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On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 21:01 -0800, Michael D'Errico wrote:
> The reason it is OK to accept CLIENT-HELLO is because it can carry the SCSV
> cipher suite value used to plug the renegotiation security hole (RFC 5746).

Why is that relevant?  The draft only retires SSL 2.0, for reasons
unrelated to the renegotiation issue.

-- 
Matt

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