Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-downgrade-scsv-03.txt> (TLS Fallback Signaling Cipher Suite Value (SCSV) for Preventing Protocol Downgrade Attacks) to Proposed Standard

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sat, 17 January 2015 18:33 UTC

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> without all of the massive serious operational problems of
> the current fallback-scsv proposal:

Can you elaborate on what this problems are?  We didn't see any at Akamai.  I wonder if we got lucky?
 
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