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Re: [TLS] Consensus Call on MTI Algorithms

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Thu, 02 April 2015 18:59 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: Nico Williams <nico@cryptonector.com>, Joseph Salowey <joe@salowey.net>
Thread-Topic: [TLS] Consensus Call on MTI Algorithms
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Subject: Re: [TLS] Consensus Call on MTI Algorithms
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It's reasonably easy to add ciphers.  Especially since most TLS 1.3 implementations will be built on a 1.[012] codebase. 

It is nearly impossible to remove ciphers.

Because of this, I am strongly in favor of JUST TWO.

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