[TLS] Result of draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4 working group last call

"Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)" <jsalowey@cisco.com> Mon, 22 September 2014 17:21 UTC

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From: "Joseph Salowey (jsalowey)" <jsalowey@cisco.com>
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Subject: [TLS] Result of draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4 working group last call
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We've reviewed the discussion resulting from the WGLC for draft-ietf-tls-prohibiting-rc4-00.  The main complaint was that the "MUST NOT" prohibition of RC4 for servers was too strong and that RC4 is still needed to interoperate with older implementations.   The consensus of the discussion was to keep the document as is with respect to prohibiting the negotiation of RC4.  This document will be forwarded to the IESG for publication.  

J/S