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

Bodo Moeller <bmoeller@acm.org> Wed, 15 October 2014 16:55 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-00
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"Florian Weimer" <fweimer@redhat.com>:

> This scenario is described here:
>
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450280>
>
> SCSV implementation would make things worse for Firefox users because it
results in a reliable connection failure instead of a downgrade from TLS
1.1 to TLS 1.2.

That is (well, *was*) a clear bug in that particular implementation.

Bodo

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