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Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08.txt> (Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for TLS) to Proposed Standard

Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@MIT.EDU> Wed, 08 April 2015 20:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] Last Call: <draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08.txt> (Negotiated Finite Field Diffie-Hellman Ephemeral Parameters for TLS) to Proposed Standard
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No interesting comments here, just a note that section 9.1 has:

      Pretend that a non-compatible client is compatible (e.g. by .
      This could cause the server to select a particular named group in

which seems to be missing something...

-Ben

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