Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation

Michael Gray <mickgray@au1.ibm.com> Sun, 13 December 2009 22:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Closing some open comments on draft-ietf-tls-renegotiation
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David-Sarah Hopwood <david-sarah@jacaranda.org> wrote:

> Michael D'Errico wrote:
> > Eric Rescorla wrote:
> >>
> >> 1. Replace "cipher suite" with magic cipher suite value (MCSV)
> >> throughout.
> >
> > I'm not sure we want to call it "magic" in the RFC (even though I
> > am probably guilty of calling it that in previous messages).
> > Perhaps "special" would be a better adjective?
>
> Signalling cipher suite value?

+1

or Probing CSV
or Renegotiation CSV

I also think "magic" should be avoided.

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