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

"Glen Zorn" <gwz@net-zen.net> Fri, 03 December 2010 05:09 UTC

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From: Glen Zorn <gwz@net-zen.net>
To: 'Joe Salowey' <jsalowey@cisco.com>
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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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Joe Salowey [mailto:jsalowey@cisco.com] writes:

> Hi Glen,
> 
> In reading the text and I'm not exactly sure where the confusion or
> contradiction comes in.  I think your suggested text is fine, but I'm
> not sure how it improves things.  If I understand your point correctly
> accepting an SSL 2.0 hello as the first message in the TLS handshake is
> an example of using at least part of SSL 2.0, so we should indicate that
> this is an exception to the MUST NOT use SSL 2.0 directive.  Is this
> your concern?

Yup.

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