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Re: [TLS] drop obsolete SSL 2 backwards compatibility from TLS 1.3 draft

"Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com> Sat, 03 January 2015 15:53 UTC

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From: "Salz, Rich" <rsalz@akamai.com>
To: "mrex@sap.com" <mrex@sap.com>, Dave Garrett <davemgarrett@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:49:25 -0500
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Subject: Re: [TLS] drop obsolete SSL 2 backwards compatibility from TLS 1.3 draft
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A TLS 1.3 server can get the hello, and if it fails to parse it, retry it as a pre-1.3 Hello.  No?  Then it's not a TLS 1.3 server, is it.

Will we always have to accommodate all the installed base with a protocol that's like a decade old?

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