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Re: [TLS] simplistic renego protection

Michael D'Errico <mike-list@pobox.com> Tue, 17 November 2009 05:15 UTC

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>> But time-to-market is __very__ important for this particular problem.  
> 
> I agree.

Time is important, absolutely.  But the important measure of time is not
how fast we publish a spec.  It is how quickly that spec. is implemented
by the rest of the world!

If extensions are required in our published spec, there will be a hurdle
for some that is entirely unnecessary.  The responsible thing for us is
to use features available in the SSLv3 spec.  I have summarized a
proposal that contains ideas from many people on this list which uses only
SSLv3-compatible features:

     http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tls/current/msg04393.html

I can implement this very quickly, and it will be less code than what it
took to implement the current draft (even though I already supported
extensions).

Mike

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