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

Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg@polarssl.org> Wed, 15 October 2014 18:26 UTC

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On 15/10/2014 20:09, Bodo Moeller wrote:
> "Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>:
> 
>> One more issue: The draft is silent on how to respond to an
> inappropriate_fallback alert.
> 
> No, it is expressly a fatal alert. What else do you think would need to be
> said?
> 
Maybe the draft could mention that after aborting the downgraded connection due
to this fatal alert, clients may want to retry with the original version?

Manuel.

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