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Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08

Stephen Farrell <stephen.farrell@cs.tcd.ie> Fri, 03 April 2015 21:19 UTC

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Subject: Re: [TLS] AD review of draft-ietf-tls-negotiated-ff-dhe-08
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On 03/04/15 22:16, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
>  Whether that's MODP 1024 or some other 1024-bit DHE group,
> this is still too weak for most guarantees i'd like to see TLS be able
> to make.

I fully agree that naming MODP1024 as part of this would be
a bad idea.

S.

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